Why people spend so many time with the computer, than reading books?

I agree that there needs to be a balance of activites, social, physicial, mental and interactive on many levels. Reading a book should be recreational as well as educational. That being said, most schools will soon come to the point where there will be no more text books, all texts will be online. All students will have laptops. We will have a paperless educational system soon. How sad they will never know the feel of opening a new book, the crack of the spine and the smell of fresh ink on paper.