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While the Internet is a text–saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the technological, social, behavioural, and neuroscientific impacts that the Internet is having on the practice of reading. A particular focus is given to the reading behaviour of emerging university students, especially within Canada and the United States. A brief overview is provided of the recent transformation of academic libraries into providers of online digital text in addition to printed books and other materials, before looking at research on college students’ preferences for print and digital text, and the cognitive neuroscience of reading on screen.

a study of recent research into brain function reveals that students could be gaining a lot more from their pursuit of linguistic skills

It argues that there is a dovetailing of results between studies conducted over the last 40 years, including recent findings from the neurosciences

six areas in which the multilingual mind differs in some way to the monolingual mind