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"I&amp;#039;ve always loved to read. Right now, I&amp;#039;m flying through the Twilight series and I&amp;#039;ve just finished Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and Schooled by Anisha Lakhani. Almost as much as reading the book, I love passing on my new favorites to my friends so that we can gush about characters like Edward Cullen together. Last week, I confidently recommended The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch to one of my friends who is still in high school. This book has become one of the most meaningful books I&amp;#039;ve ever read. I&amp;#039;m not much of a crier when I read, but this book left me in hysterics by the end. To my surprise, she replied, &amp;quot;Thanks anyway, but I already watched his real lecture on YouTube.&amp;quot; I couldn&amp;#039;t believe she didn&amp;#039;t want to read it. When I asked her why, she clued me into the fact that it&amp;#039;s not because she didn&amp;#039;t want to read it, but that her and her friends prefer to read online now. She considers books to be &amp;quot;slow news&amp;quot; when she can read the information quickly online or watch a video about it instead.  Once I started researching this, I found out that there is a huge debate about whether or not reading online is beneficial to today&amp;#039;s tech-savvy teens. While teens say reading online allows them to find different points of view, academics say that these &amp;quot;points of view&amp;quot; are poor sources, often angry rants by unsatisfied parents, and have a tendency to contain more spelling and grammatical errors than an article that&amp;#039;s been through a rigorous editing process, say, for a newspaper or a magazine This blog itself is an example of online reading. Am I considered to be a &amp;quot;poor source&amp;quot;? Supporters of online reading say that it gives less experienced writers, like me, a chance to publish their work. But is my writing considered harmful to young readers because I didn&amp;#039;t publish a novel yet? I would hate to think so. At the same time, I also hate to think that online reading is replacing books. As much as I appreciate the .com world, scrolling down a Webpage just doesn&amp;#039;t give me that sense of accomplishment I feel as I place my bookmark further and further toward the last page of a book after reading it late into the night. Do you prefer reading online, or in print? Do you think schools should test online reading comprehension just as much as they test students on books? Is reading online just as valid as reading a book? Bisous, Devin Tomb Editorial Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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