It's like they've met me.

A large number of literate westerners spend most of their waking hours at computers, and those computers are connected to the web. The characteristic activity on such a computer has been given the pleasing name "wilfing", adapted from the acronym WWILF, or "What was I looking for?" You work a bit. You check if it's your move in Facebook Scrabble. You get an email. You answer it. You get a text. You answer it. Since your phone's in your hand, you play Angry Birds for five minutes. You work a bit. You go online to check something, get distracted by a link, forget what you were looking for, stumble on a picture of a duck that looks like Hitler, share it on Twitter, rinse and repeat.

-from Guardian article here


eta: Oh, this comment is wonderful. It's why I don't own a Kindle yet, and why buying one isn't even close to the top of my list. It's why I buy books even when I have ten or twenty sitting as-yet unopened on my shelf. It's why I read. It's why I own copies of books that are selling for £20 or £60 or £100+ on Amazon, but I won't sell them because they're my books.

Wonderful. I'd love to buy that person a coffee. Or better yet, a book token.