Currently reading the trashy page-turner chick-lit for the cash-rich, time-poor generation Apocalypse, by DH Lawrence. A couple of paragraphs in the first chapter struck a chord:

"A book only lives while it has power to move us, and move us differently; so long as we find it different every time we read it. Owing to the flood of shallow books which really are exhausted in one reading, the modern mind tends to think every book is the same, finished in one reading ... We shall now see the reading public dividing again into two groups: the vast mass, who read for amusement and for momentary interest, and the small minority, who only want books that have value to themselves, books which yield interest, and still deeper experience."

The book was first published in 1931. It's curious how his words, while directed at books, apply equally to our latter-day use of the Internet.