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Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.
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I think he's right in the sense that a desktop computer somehow discourages reading of long texts. I know I don't like to read a book on one. I wouldn't have liked reading his article on one, so I used Send to Kindle to push it to my eInk device.
During the year prior to the publication of this article (July 2008), two technological developments arose that, in tandem, offered a cure for the illness Carr diagnoses: the six inch eReader, and instapaper.com.
Also, although I have no recollection of this article, I am a long-time subscriber to the Atlantic Monthly. So what happenned? A lot of the time, what happenned was that I lost the magazine before finishing it! Now that I have the subscription via Kindle, that can't happen.
Lastly, there was an event in September 2011 that greatly reduced my long text reading for several years. Instead, because of 9/11, I did more newspaper reading. So while I don't dismiss what Carr says, there are other factors that could be more important.