Writing and Reading

The Handwriting Is on the Wall, says the Washington Post. On the 2006 SAT, only 15% of the test takers completed the essay portion in long hand. The rest printed their essays. Why? Writing in cursive is an art lost to the presence of keyboard, researchers say.

So my question is, if the keyboard has killed handwriting, has the Internet harmed reading? (And by reading, I mean books, not blogs.) Do people read more or less because of their internet experience? My suspicion, based on observation only (and I know the limitations of that), is that for all the proliferation of internet book sellers and box bookstore chains, we are not only writing less, but we are reading less too.

(HT: Al Mohler's Daily Links)