Electronic Books The Next Cause Of Obesity?

Google has plans to put library books online. The idea is cool in that it will allow millions more people access to rare books that they would not otherwise have access too. Forbes seems to put an interesting twist on it.

Such electronic instant-gratification devices as television and videogames are cited for boosting obesity among America's youth. Now the concerned may have a new target: library books. Google is making it possible to ingest the contents of miles of printed volumes without ever leaving one's computer chair.

So people are going to read from their computer chair and grow fat when they wouldn't from reading on their couch from a paperback book? I guess I should start printing out web pages I want to read and read them from my chair instead of on the computer as a weight loss program.



The article is rather scattered in subject, touching a sentence here and there on different issues, but it has some interesting history and facts.