Reading On Line Every time I read some Englsih articles online, I can't concentrate. I don't know why. I can't understand it quickly and I have to read it again and again. If it is very easy and short, of course, it is no problem, but it is C1 level or B2 level and long, it's difficult to acquire the contents well. Then I print out and read it again. Surprisingly I can see the English structure of sentences cleary at glance and get the meaning. Interestingly, when I write some business letters and documents in Japanese, my native language, at work, I always find errors after printing them out. Reading on the screen doesn't seem like to be real for me. It's like I'm looking at some pictures of letters. The lines of sentences come into my eyes as some just rows of alphabets, not as sentences that have meaning, intentions of humans. This difference is like the gap between robots and humans for me. I'm not young, so is my brain getting tired? No, I don't want to think so. I'm sure it is due to the internet, not because of my age. I'd like to read printed ones. When I'm interested in the article, I always rewrite it in my notebook so that I can recall the contents later. I do the same thing about paper books, too. If I find great sentences in a book, I copy them in my notebook. I just collect them as if a child collects small leaves or stones.