The New York Times has an interesting piece on Internet reading vs. traditional book reading.

Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.

Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here in this suburb southwest of Cleveland.

At least six hours! That's unfathomable! Anyway, the article says that at least the Internet forces kids to read and write while they're wasting time, instead of mindlessly watching TV. I guess that's good. To quote Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite, "You may as well do something while you're doing nothing."