In Chapter Six, Carr cites the work of some academics, including New York University's Clay Shirkey, as saying that deep reading was always overrated. Why did Shirkey and others think that reading long literary novels was overrated?

In Chapter Six, Carr cites the work of academics like New York University's Clay Shirkey as saying that deep reading of novels such as Tolstoy's War and Peace was always overrated because that book and others like it that were lauded for so long in literary and academic circles were never as good, interesting, or enlightening as people made them out to be. Shirkey said that the access the Internet brought for many people to other forms of information is more useful to most people than reading long classic novels.