Here is an interesting article from the New York Times published on Sunday July 27, 2008 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?ei=5124&en=81a364206914f90a&ex=1374897600&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&pagewanted=all). This can definitely be a debate going on right now. I know when you, the students, are researching you want to use the Internet and find it right away. However, this article goes even further in the discussion in response for free reading.
I have spent some time reading on FanFiction.net. I don't know how many of you have found it as well. There is a lot of good fiction being written there. There is also some not so good fiction being written there. However could it not be said the same for books in a library. There are some good books there and there are some not so good books. Now not every book is for every reader but there are some books that never find their readers and they get published anyway.
One quote from the article really I thought was really part of the debate, "Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of empty calories. Often, they argue, writers on the Internet employ a cryptic argot that vexes teachers and parents." If reading on the Internet is such a waste of time for free reading and there is no thought going into it how is it so cryptic a vocabulary? There must be thought and knowledge that we don't know about.
How many of you read for pleasure on the Internet and not just posting on MySpace or Facebook? I would be interested in knowing what you are reading and where.
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