After reading Liu's article I thought that it was interesting to read that many people believe that genrations to come with have a hard time reading actual deep or purposful readings instead tehy will be to reliant on digital readings. "A number of scholars argue that the arrival of digital media, together with the fragmentary nature of hypertext, is threatening sustained reading". I find this to be somewhat true, I have a harder time to read simple textbooks because I am so use to finding summaries or papers or relevant articles online. This does however seem more difficult for me to read things online. Whenever assigned a reading on the internet I always find the need to print it out to be able to highlight and comment on it. "He observes that people do not like to read from screens. They prefer to print out electronic documents for reading, even printouts from dot matrix printers. He argues that the recent trend in mounting electronic documents in Adobe's PDF format also discourages screen reading and encourages printing. People tend to print out documents that are longer than can be displayed on a few screens. People also know how to organize and manipulate paper documents, but manipulating electronic documents requires a different set of skills." This is interesting because now in a world where we thought that email and electronic files would be saving paper and the environment its not.
This will affect the way i lay out my website because i will be more cognizant of the way I write and lay out my text to make it seem more appealing to read.