Samenvatting

Where in the 90s everyone had a hi-fi stereo sound system to play their favourite records or CDs, now we hardly have any favourite music, let alone a decent installation to play it on. Although we can hear everything ever made through Spotify or iTunes, we usually listen through a speaker on the smartphone or tablet. Gone is both the pleasure in music and the pleasure of building a personal music collection and thus identity. The same goes for books (for example Kobo plus). The presentation of text - fonts, paragraphs, and images - in eBooks cannot be compared to the beautiful formatting of printed books. The easier we communicate textually, the less we read. SMS and WhatsApp are wonderful examples of "garbled" textual communication. Tis text focusses on why this may be the case.