~ EFC-IIOTTLASF-IATA-WEAGFK ~ Ebooks For Children – It Is One Thing To Look At Sales Figures – It’s Another To Ask – Whether Ebooks Are Good For Kids

~ TMTK-TMTR ~ Too Much To Know – Too Much To Read

~ TL;DR – Too Long; Didn’t Read

~ ATWTWDTP-PTTV-LAL-OWIO-TRHS-E-TAOPWII-TLL-HC ~ As They Work Their Way Down The Page – People Tend To View – Less And Less – Of What Is On – The Right-Hand Side – Essentially – They Are Only Processing What Is In – The Lower Left-Hand Corner

~ RSA-80%-OTT-RWIO-TIP ~ Readers Spend About – 80 Percent – Of Their Time – Reading What Is On – The Initial Page

~ YDWTSOCFAWTDPO-AS-T-BR-WB ~ You Don’t Want To Shell Out Cash For A Work That Doesn’t Pan Out – And So – The – Book Review – Was Born

~ Tl;DS – Too Long; Didn’t Scroll

~ WSAECAY ~ What Should An Ebook Cost Anyway?

~ WHTAWCDDEP? ~ What Happens To Authors When Competition Drives Down Ebook Prices?

~ IT-33P-OM-TM-ASE-CW-2/3OAP-TMAPB ~ It Takes – 33 Pounds – Of Minerals – To Make – A Single Ereader Compared With – 2/3 Of A Pound – To Make A Printed Book

~ PAE-R-100K-HOFF-WP-66POCO2-CW-2KH-A-1OOTLIGG-FAB ~ Producing An Ereader – Requires – 100 Kilowatt-Hours Of Fossil Fuels – Which Produce – 66 Pounds Of Co2 – Compared With – 2 Kilowatt-Hours – And – 100 Times Less In Greenhouse Gases – For A Book

~ ‘R’-AE-TEIPM-IGDIPC-OBC-WWAETEHRFT ~ “Recycling” – An Ereader – To Extract Its Precious Minerals – Is Generally Done In Poor Countries – Often By Children – Where Workers Are Exposed To Enormous Health Risks From Toxins

~ P-UMCIDD-AARR ~ Paper – Unlike Many Components In Digital Devices – Is A Renewable Resource

~ A-30BWOE-ACWB-DDW-TAEOTOO-30NPP ~ About – 30 Billion Watts Of Electricity – Are Consumed Worldwide By – Digital Data Warehouses – The Approximate Equivalent Of The Output Of – 30 Nuclear Power Plants

~ TJIDSOO-WDROP-IN-OWB-MEF ~ The Jury Is Definitely Still Out On – Whether Digital Reading Or Paper – Is Now – Or Will Become – More Environmentally Friendly

~ PA-TIAL-IAMC-TNOAFPLIAFR ~ Public Access – To Information And Learning – Is A Modern Concept – The Notion Of A Free Public Library Is Also Fairly Recent

~ CB-IYGITTS-YCHTN ~ Centuries Back – If You Gathered In The Town Square – You Could Hear The News

~ MOOC ~ Massive Open Online Courses

~ WCTSSASAFPP ~ We Continue To See Stories About Students And Faculty Preferring Print

~ ASWTDCRITM ~ A Surefire Way To Disrupt Careful Reading Is To Multitask

~ TMPRGF-E-IF ~ The Most Popular Reading Genre For – Ebooks – Is Fiction

~ IADW-OISAQE ~ In A Digital World – Once Is Seen As Quite Enough

~ HSIR? ~ How Social Is Reading?

~ RA-TTWWNAT-WACO ~ Reading Aloud – To Those Who Were Not Able To – Was A Common Occurrence

~ T-TFMOPCTFTPOR-IF-T-FRGOO-AW-A-TBTR-O-A-F ~ Today – The Fast Majority Of People Coming Together For The Purpose Of Reading – In Face-To-Face Reading Groups Or Online – Are Women – And – The Books They’re Reading – Overwhelmingly – Are – Fiction

~ EST-CBU-B-STMTTTW ~ Electronic Search Tools – Can Be Useful – But – Sometimes Take More Time Than They’re Worth

~ SHUA-PIUTL ~ Screens Hastens Us Along – Print Invites Us To Linger

~ HR ~ Hyper Reading

~ SMFAOHC-EC-BL-T-T-A-BC-AMFIVOSN ~ So Many Fundamental Aspects Of Human Communication – Eye Contact – Body Language – Tone – Timbre – And – Bodily Contact – Are Missing From Interactions Via Online Social Networking

~ TIATIO-WHYCDD-RTTWT-HDOTCS ~ There Is Also The Issue Of – Whether Handing Young Children Digital Devices – Rather Than Talking With Them – Hampers Development Of Their Communication Skills

~ CW-RO-P-TTLD-AAR-IEMF ~ Compared With – Reading Onscreen – Print – Tends To Limit Distraction – As A Result – It Encourages Mental Focus

~ MCTBUTDWWAD-EM-AGS ~ Modern Communication Technologies Beckon Us To Drop What We Are Doing – Even Momentarily – And Get Sidetracked

~ Y-WCSHACWSPOC-B-TLOVOIR ~ Yes – We Can Successfully Hold A Conversation While Shelling Peas Or Crocheting – But – The List Of Viable Options Is Restricted

~ ETU-EWU-T-SM-IEAM ~ Experts Tell Us – Even Warn Us – That – Successful Multitasking – Is Essentially A Myth

~ YA-23TML-TCWD-IYAT-TIYN ~ You Are – 23 Times More Likely – To Crash While Driving – If You Are Texting – Than If You’re Not

~ NWSMYPAI-OK-TUTPWD-GTBTSMBA ~ No Wonder So Many Young People Assume It’s – OK – To Use Their Phones While Driving – Given The Behavior They See Modeled By Adults

~ YBOM ~ Your Brain On Multitasking

~ T-DSMMD-‘IUD’-DNMTFC-T-‘IGD’-D ~ The – Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders – “Internet Use Disorder” – Did Not Make The Final Cut – Though – “Internet Gaming Disorder” – Did

~ OTR-6000-LIUT-HAETDO-BTEOTT-FC ~ Of The Roughly – 6000 – Languages In Use Today – Half Are Expected To Die Out – By The End Of The Twenty-First Century

~ WATTMCDTRO?-DF-DS-DT ~ What Are The Three Most Critical Drawbacks To Reading Onscreen? – Distraction First – Distraction Second – Distraction Third

~ SASAYTD-AI;MD-IAIHS ~ Short Attention Span And Yielding To Distraction – Are In; Mental Discipline – Is An Increasingly Hard Sell