Matthew Kahn wonders whether blog reading crowds out book reading.
He believes there are two types of blog readers: the nerdy "Wikipedia" types who like variety and suffer from slight attention deficit order, and the "deep readers" who want to dig deep in a few subjects.
He speculates that books are substitutes for the Wikipedia nerds and complements for the deep readers.
I read more books since I've started reading blogs.
I don't buy more books,...
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