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I've been reading extensively since I was a small child and I still retain at LEAST the basic plot summaries, key points, and some facts from nearly every book I've read. Even reading several novels every month in 3rd grade (everything from YA to the stuff I still read today), I still manage to retain the essential information on what I read. Maybe if they were handwritten I'd be able to retain more information by being required to study each word, but then I wouldn't be going at a comfortable pace, I'd get frustrated, and I wouldn't bother reading in the first place.
My eBook reader hasn't made reading too much easier than a novel... it's allowed me to read anywhere at any time without worrying about carrying a bulky book around with me. If anything I read less than I used to... though that's probably due to the job and not being able to get by on 4 hours of sleep.
Reading anything and being able to retain the information requires skills beyond processing the visual words on the page. I don't old a fancy degree, but I doubt that printing things illegibly is going to solve more problems than it creates.
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