The Slow Reading Movement

I post this because it picks up on a discussion a few friends had over a bbq last evening. Does internet reading -- with its hyperlinks allowing us to hop from article to article, short quick pieces and formats like news aggregators and news readers -- diminish our capacity (or at least our practice) of reading longer more in-depth pieces? Patrick Kingsley in this London Guardian article (h/t ALDAILY)tells us about the slow-reading movement, suggests the IPAD may be a helpful half-way solution but still suggests that time needs to be consciously carved out in order to read more substantial pieces.