Most of the book 2.0 tools seem to promote reading the actual book as opposed to reading the book online. I don’t think the book will ever die. Reading online is fine for short stories or articles, but online reading doesn’t work well for reading a novel. However, it is fun to see what other people are reading and what their perceptions of those books are. The online book communities enhance people connections to books and help them better communicate their feeling about the books.
The literacy debate article made a good point when it suggested that even though teens seem to be reading fewer books, at least they are reading online. I don’t believe that reading online is the same thing as reading book but, as the article suggests, they are not watching TV either. I think teens do a lot of reading and writing online without even realizing it. I will be interesting to see how this affects the workplace in next few years.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment