In Chapter 6, the very image of a book, Carr talks about how the internet has really caused people in the world to cut down on reading books. He describes books, how they can be used, and how they are used now that the digital industry is changing, and developing constantly. He tells several stories. One of the stories he tells is about a fellow in the public Policy Center in Washington DC named Christine Rosen, who wrote about her experience reading after she got used to using the internet. A few things she said was that when she was reading, her "eyes were restless and jumped around as they do when I try to read for a sustained time on the computer. Distractions abounded."(Carr 103). What she means by that is that while she is reading, it is hard for her to keep her eyes still, and focused on the page she is reading because on the net, there are often many different parts of a page to read. Examples include looking up people including Dickens on Wikipedia and so on. The internet is so specific that it made it hard for Rosen to keep focused by looking at only one part of a page. Another example of how the internet impacts our brain functions during a time of reading is how Steve Johnson realized that reading e-books on a Kindle would likely change the "way people read, write, and sell books in profound ways"(Carr 103). Not only does he believe that, but he also believes that it would help make books as searchable as any page on the net. Johnson is starting to get the idea that the internet is changing, and possibly causing a great development in how our brains think and function. Given that this experience has past on to many other people, "Book publishers have suffered some losses of business as reading has shifted from the printed page to the screen, but the form of the book itself hasn't changed much."(Carr 99). He means that many book companies, and sellers have went out of business because less people are buying their books due to the rapid development of the web.

One thing that has been invented given the constant inventions of technological devices, is the digital reader. When they were first made, they didn't start out very efficient, but according to Carr, they have greatly improved over the years. The advantages that they were meant to have are not as clear cut as they would have originally started. One example of how e books and digital readers have improved is that the functions have enabled people to click through pages, bookmarks, do functions like scribbling and highlighting, and more. The size of the writing in the e books are able to be changed in size for people who have eyes that are to weak to read a completely printed book. Despite the fact that book companies are going out of business, this technology has made the reading of books much more popular as more people are enabled to do it than anytime before the internet would have been invented.

The internet has really changed the way we think about text

-Drew Theran