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Because it's so easy to jump around online, people tend to jump around. So yeah, I concur: reading on paper more deeply engages me than does reading on a glowing screen....
As does going to the theater versus watching at home. I can remember particular points of days 40 years ago; I saw "Rocky" at the theater ($2 matinee Saturday special) with a friend and we got sodas and chips afterwards - I remember the friend, the soda, the chips, his mom dropped us off, etc. as seeing "Rocky" felt like a mini-event.
Now, we pop a disc in or click to stream, watch something and move on with our day - I doubt 4 months from now let alone 40 years, I'll remember anything particular about the day I streamed "Brooklyn," but I still know the bag a chips I had the day I saw Rocky - going to the movie makes for a deeper connect with the movie.