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In chapter six of Nicolas Carr’s book “The Shallows” he is presenting the argument of if book reading is declining. He discusses how reading books electronically has become very popular, but there comes too many distractions to do deep reading. Authors now feel the pressure to change the way they write, so people will become more interested in what they are saying. Some argue that we may see “digitation as a liberating act, a way of freeing text from the page” (108). Even in the earlier days things such as: Thomas Edison’s phonograph, movies, television watching, and radio listening were thought to pose a threat on reading a normal book. Deep reading may be a thing of the past due to the use of the internet.
In chapter six of The Shallows, Nicholas Carr points out that reading has changed because of the internet. We have become so distracted because of the web that, "In the choice we have made, consciously or not, about how we use the computer, we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that the book bestowed on us" (114). Books are still available, but the format has changed. Instead of printed books, electronic books have become the new trend. The online books allow people to click on different tabs, like advertisements, while reading which contributes to their disconnectedness. The web has changed the meaning of reading, and not in a good way.
In chapter six of The Shallows, Nicholas Carr points out that reading has changed because of the internet. We have become so distracted because of the web that, "In the choice we have made, consciously or not, about how we use the computer, we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that the book bestowed on us" (114). Books are still available, but the format has changed. Instead of printed books, electronic books have become the new trend. The online books allow people to click on different tabs, like advertisements, while reading which contributes to their disconnectedness. The web has changed the meaning of reading, and not in a good way.
In chapter 6 of Carr’s book, “The Shallows”, Carr is discussing the evolution of E-books and how it has changed the view of so many on regular books. “While he doesn’t think printed books are going to disappear anytime soon, he does sense that, ‘in the future we will keep them around as fond relics, reminders of what reading used to be like.’” (McGrath, page 102). This quote is so outrageous to think about, imagining books to not be used for any informational base, just for a “fond relic”. Many complain about E-books, like in this quote, “My eyes were restless and jumped around as they do when I try to read for a sustained time on the computer.” (103). Looking at a screen for a prolonged period of time hurts your eyes and bothers your head, unlike an actual book, that has no pixilated words to have to stare at. Carr also speaks on the topic of how we do not read works because they are too difficult for us to comprehend. With technology changing so rapidly, our generation isn’t used to the works the generation before us are using now.
In Chapter 6 of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows,” he begins to express the idea that as a culture our reading habits have evolved, whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Carr elaborates on the notion that even though we are still technically reading online, it still is nowhere near the same idea or motive. For example, he explains that “we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest” (138). Carr supports the idea that instead of reading for pleasure of self fulfillment, we are now reading (online) to search what a required knowledge needing to be attained. He explains how not only has reading in general has changed, but its format has, as well. For example, he explains that internet reading or E-Book reading has taken place, almost fully, of books in general.
In chapter 6 of "The Shallows", Nicholas Carr highlights the fact that the Internet is the first technology to completely change books. Up until now, the book has stayed pretty much the same. A cover, pages, ink text. However, the Internet is gradually gaining popularity with E-reading. This is especially the case with digital readers, such as Amazon's Kindle. Obviously traditional books are not obsolete, and won't be any time soon. But, they are slowly becoming more and more outdated. The traditional book has some advantages over a digital reader, but the economic advantages of online reading are undeniable. No shipping costs, less production costs, more environmentally friendly.... but what does this mean for the future? Well, many believe that this is just the beginning of Internet reading becoming the only relevant way to read. Nicholas Carr advocates the idea that this can and will completely change the way books are written. Carr states "... as soon as you 'extend' and 'enhance' it [a book] and make it 'dynamic'-- you change what it is and you change, as well, the experience of reading it." (103). Authors will try and make their texts more Internet-friendly, adapting the way the write to make them more appealing for things like hyperlinks. It is predicted that soon all texts will have videos and live chats inserted into them, making deep-reading more of a chore than a pleasure. Reading will become just like the Internet- clicking and clicking on random things to get short bursts of information fast, not to really take time and enjoy a book. These new shifts in reading could, potentially, be a foreshadow to the end of the deep-reading that we know and the beginning of a new age in how we read.
In Chapter six of Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" the writing begins with how the book has been a great source of technology for half a millennium but as of recent how the e-book has begun to take hold. Carr states that the e-book has changed the way we read and in turn the way we write. The way of writing is tailored to search engines and ways to gain a steady stream views.
In chapter six of “The Shallows” Carr speaks on how an actual book has evolved to a much great thing like an e-book. He believes that reading an e-book or anything online is actually a lot harder than reading something in print. This is shown when he says “you can read a dozen or a hundred printed pages without suffering the eye fatigue that often results from even a brief stretch of online reading” (100). He also goes on to talk about how printed books will become ‘relics’. Young readers don’t like traditional novels because “…their sentences are too difficult to understand” (105). This is one of the reasons that reading printed books will be a thing in the past and our ways of reading and writing will be completely opposite. The internet is forever changing the way we do things, and that could mean a stop to a lot of essential things we need to be doing like thinking in a deeper way.
In Chapter 6 of The Shallows, Carr talks about how the internet has really caused people in the world to cut down on reading books. Carr describes the nature of books, how they can be used, and how they are used now as the digital industry is changing, and developing constantly. Nowadays the e-books, as we know them, have replaced the traditional paperback books. This transition from the deep reading of physical books to “zip along the surface” (8) of those digital books has also altered the importance of reading book. Carr also quotes difficulties of reading online as described by Christina Rosen. He quotes, “‘Nevertheless, my eyes were restless and jumped around as they do when I try to read for a sustained time on the computer. Distractions abounded’” (Carr 103). But, as the fact persists, people are getting more and more involved in technology and thus continue to prefer e-books which may lead them to the end of deep reading.
In Chapter 6 of The Shallows, Carr talks about how printed books have evolved with modern technology. Throughout the years books have become E-books which have made books easily accessible for everyone. In the chapter Carr makes the argument of how technology is changing the experience of reading. Carr states, “The experience of reading tends to be better with a book” (100). Within E-books are hyperlinks and that can be distracting at times. People see E-books are a positive thing but if you only read E-books then you do not get the full experience of reading an actual book.
In Chapter 6 of “The Shallows,” Carr begins to explain that our reading habits, as well as platforms, have significantly changed. Today’s most common form of reading is done on the internet. Carr states that this form of skimming and scanning done by most isn’t healthy. “We are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest” (138). We are told that where humans used to read for enjoyment and for the pleasure of the act, we now read, mostly online, only for key facts and ideas. Carr explains that humans have begun using digital books or E-books to read rather than real hard copies. “you can read a dozen or a hundred printed pages without suffering the eye fatigue that often results from even a brief stretch of online reading” (100).
In Chapter Six of “The Shallows” Carr discusses books compared to reading online and using the internet instead of using a physical book. One must remember,” change in a medium’s form is also a change in its content”. Whether you are reading online or reading a hard back book, the online experience will never be the same as when actually reading a book. Carr describes that books were one of the last things to reach its “Digital Age” because of how similar reading online is to reading a physical book. Yet recently ebooks such as the Kindle have made advances that consumers have really enjoyed. Even though books don’t seem to be disappearing at a very fast rate, Charles McGrath predicts,” In the future we will keep them around as fond relics, reminders of what reading used to be like”. Changes in the reading style will also effect the writing style and many authors and readers aren’t very reluctant to give up the style and efficiency with which they operate today.
In chapter six of “Shallow” Carr states that the Internet has devoured the use of books. "In the choice we have made, consciously or not, about how we use the computer, we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that the book bestowed on us" (114). Books are even on the Internet that people read, so why not get the actual book? Reading and writing will soon be ancient if technology grows even more. The ways of reading and writing are being changed drastically.
In chapter six of Nicolas Carr’s book “The Shallows” he is presenting the argument of if book reading is declining. He discusses how reading books electronically has become very popular, but there comes too many distractions to do deep reading. Authors now feel the pressure to change the way they write, so people will become more interested in what they are saying. Some argue that we may see “digitation as a liberating act, a way of freeing text from the page” (108). Even in the earlier days things such as: Thomas Edison’s phonograph, movies, television watching, and radio listening were thought to pose a threat on reading a normal book. Deep reading may be a thing of the past due to the use of the internet.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter six of The Shallows, Nicholas Carr points out that reading has changed because of the internet. We have become so distracted because of the web that, "In the choice we have made, consciously or not, about how we use the computer, we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that the book bestowed on us" (114). Books are still available, but the format has changed. Instead of printed books, electronic books have become the new trend. The online books allow people to click on different tabs, like advertisements, while reading which contributes to their disconnectedness. The web has changed the meaning of reading, and not in a good way.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter six of The Shallows, Nicholas Carr points out that reading has changed because of the internet. We have become so distracted because of the web that, "In the choice we have made, consciously or not, about how we use the computer, we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that the book bestowed on us" (114). Books are still available, but the format has changed. Instead of printed books, electronic books have become the new trend. The online books allow people to click on different tabs, like advertisements, while reading which contributes to their disconnectedness. The web has changed the meaning of reading, and not in a good way.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 6 of Carr’s book, “The Shallows”, Carr is discussing the evolution of E-books and how it has changed the view of so many on regular books. “While he doesn’t think printed books are going to disappear anytime soon, he does sense that, ‘in the future we will keep them around as fond relics, reminders of what reading used to be like.’” (McGrath, page 102). This quote is so outrageous to think about, imagining books to not be used for any informational base, just for a “fond relic”. Many complain about E-books, like in this quote, “My eyes were restless and jumped around as they do when I try to read for a sustained time on the computer.” (103). Looking at a screen for a prolonged period of time hurts your eyes and bothers your head, unlike an actual book, that has no pixilated words to have to stare at. Carr also speaks on the topic of how we do not read works because they are too difficult for us to comprehend. With technology changing so rapidly, our generation isn’t used to the works the generation before us are using now.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 6 of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows,” he begins to express the idea that as a culture our reading habits have evolved, whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Carr elaborates on the notion that even though we are still technically reading online, it still is nowhere near the same idea or motive. For example, he explains that “we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest” (138). Carr supports the idea that instead of reading for pleasure of self fulfillment, we are now reading (online) to search what a required knowledge needing to be attained. He explains how not only has reading in general has changed, but its format has, as well. For example, he explains that internet reading or E-Book reading has taken place, almost fully, of books in general.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 6 of "The Shallows", Nicholas Carr highlights the fact that the Internet is the first technology to completely change books. Up until now, the book has stayed pretty much the same. A cover, pages, ink text. However, the Internet is gradually gaining popularity with E-reading. This is especially the case with digital readers, such as Amazon's Kindle. Obviously traditional books are not obsolete, and won't be any time soon. But, they are slowly becoming more and more outdated. The traditional book has some advantages over a digital reader, but the economic advantages of online reading are undeniable. No shipping costs, less production costs, more environmentally friendly.... but what does this mean for the future? Well, many believe that this is just the beginning of Internet reading becoming the only relevant way to read. Nicholas Carr advocates the idea that this can and will completely change the way books are written. Carr states "... as soon as you 'extend' and 'enhance' it [a book] and make it 'dynamic'-- you change what it is and you change, as well, the experience of reading it." (103). Authors will try and make their texts more Internet-friendly, adapting the way the write to make them more appealing for things like hyperlinks. It is predicted that soon all texts will have videos and live chats inserted into them, making deep-reading more of a chore than a pleasure. Reading will become just like the Internet- clicking and clicking on random things to get short bursts of information fast, not to really take time and enjoy a book. These new shifts in reading could, potentially, be a foreshadow to the end of the deep-reading that we know and the beginning of a new age in how we read.
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ReplyDeleteIn Chapter six of Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" the writing begins with how the book has been a great source of technology for half a millennium but as of recent how the e-book has begun to take hold. Carr states that the e-book has changed the way we read and in turn the way we write. The way of writing is tailored to search engines and ways to gain a steady stream views.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter six of “The Shallows” Carr speaks on how an actual book has evolved to a much great thing like an e-book. He believes that reading an e-book or anything online is actually a lot harder than reading something in print. This is shown when he says “you can read a dozen or a hundred printed pages without suffering the eye fatigue that often results from even a brief stretch of online reading” (100). He also goes on to talk about how printed books will become ‘relics’. Young readers don’t like traditional novels because “…their sentences are too difficult to understand” (105). This is one of the reasons that reading printed books will be a thing in the past and our ways of reading and writing will be completely opposite. The internet is forever changing the way we do things, and that could mean a stop to a lot of essential things we need to be doing like thinking in a deeper way.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 6 of The Shallows, Carr talks about how the internet has really caused people in the world to cut down on reading books. Carr describes the nature of books, how they can be used, and how they are used now as the digital industry is changing, and developing constantly. Nowadays the e-books, as we know them, have replaced the traditional paperback books. This transition from the deep reading of physical books to “zip along the surface” (8) of those digital books has also altered the importance of reading book. Carr also quotes difficulties of reading online as described by Christina Rosen. He quotes, “‘Nevertheless, my eyes were restless and jumped around as they do when I try to read for a sustained time on the computer. Distractions abounded’” (Carr 103). But, as the fact persists, people are getting more and more involved in technology and thus continue to prefer e-books which may lead them to the end of deep reading.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 6 of The Shallows, Carr talks about how printed books have evolved with modern technology. Throughout the years books have become E-books which have made books easily accessible for everyone. In the chapter Carr makes the argument of how technology is changing the experience of reading. Carr states, “The experience of reading tends to be better with a book” (100). Within E-books are hyperlinks and that can be distracting at times. People see E-books are a positive thing but if you only read E-books then you do not get the full experience of reading an actual book.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 6 of “The Shallows,” Carr begins to explain that our reading habits, as well as platforms, have significantly changed. Today’s most common form of reading is done on the internet. Carr states that this form of skimming and scanning done by most isn’t healthy. “We are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest” (138). We are told that where humans used to read for enjoyment and for the pleasure of the act, we now read, mostly online, only for key facts and ideas. Carr explains that humans have begun using digital books or E-books to read rather than real hard copies. “you can read a dozen or a hundred printed pages without suffering the eye fatigue that often results from even a brief stretch of online reading” (100).
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter Six of “The Shallows” Carr discusses books compared to reading online and using the internet instead of using a physical book. One must remember,” change in a medium’s form is also a change in its content”. Whether you are reading online or reading a hard back book, the online experience will never be the same as when actually reading a book. Carr describes that books were one of the last things to reach its “Digital Age” because of how similar reading online is to reading a physical book. Yet recently ebooks such as the Kindle have made advances that consumers have really enjoyed. Even though books don’t seem to be disappearing at a very fast rate, Charles McGrath predicts,” In the future we will keep them around as fond relics, reminders of what reading used to be like”. Changes in the reading style will also effect the writing style and many authors and readers aren’t very reluctant to give up the style and efficiency with which they operate today.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter six of “Shallow” Carr states that the Internet has devoured the use of books. "In the choice we have made, consciously or not, about how we use the computer, we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that the book bestowed on us" (114). Books are even on the Internet that people read, so why not get the actual book? Reading and writing will soon be ancient if technology grows even more. The ways of reading and writing are being changed drastically.
ReplyDelete