Carr extends his criticism of Google beyond its search engine into its practice of digitizing books, which makes vast amounts of material available to students and other readers. He argues that writing on the page freed us from working on decoding text, thus enabling us to concentrate on meaning. We still decode text on the screen quickly, but instead of moving toward an in-depth understanding or slow excavation of its connotations, we tend to move on quickly to a series of information bits presented as "relevant content."

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