Agree with the criticism of the article, disagree with the title of the post - you'll find dumb opinions in every newspaper, magazine and book in the world, oh and on the internet too. (Personally I'm a Guardian reader, though I have a subscription to Times online that I rarely use.)

From personal experience, I'd say that the internet has made me read less books, just because there are many things I tend to prioritise above them... but when I do find the time I can still get through them in exactly the same way I did when I was ten years old, and in the week that I spend every year in the countryside with no internet, and all data on my blackberry disabled, I get through books as fast as anything (maybe I should count how many I read in a week when I go away next month).

edit: Comment from The Times site:

"Very interesting article. I use the Internet extensively for research and I tend to agree with the writer's analysis of how this can affect concentration. However, I am not part of the "younger generation" so I still live in many ways according to the pre-Internet era."

Amazing that she's able to agree with the point while claiming that she herself isn't affected...