opening an actual book for research?? really??

    Due to today's advent of technology...and as we all know that is .. Google. the actual method of researching a idea , topic, or what ever it may be in a book is extremely rare. Rare because it may be harder to do ? time consuming? Mostly because the invention of the internet and it infinite database of info and online books made looking up actual info in encyclopedias a primitive thing to do nowadays. You will find that almost everyone if not everybody that is in school doing research uses the internet as their book to look up info .
    I remember that when my parents were growing up and in my early years of school , they used to help me look up info in the encyclopedias. this took hours and hours of our time and sometimes got nowhere. Often at times the encyclopedias were out of date and were not concurrent. This made things worse and increased the time of doing the dreaded research. The modern internet today stays updated at a fingertips notice and almost instantaneously eliminating the need for re publishing issues and newer versions of some books in some cases. What an amazing improvement now.
     For some of those who were born during and after the age of Google, the ease for them of researching info at a fingertip has been taken for granite. My little brother for example was born into the Google age. He has not experienced looking up info and doing research in the old fashioned text book style. To him its far-fetched and just senseless idea to do such thing. So why does he think this? Some people thinks its because of being lazy. i think in a way it is. However it is so widespread that it has become the norm for all . but does it make it more meaningful for people to look up info the old fashioned way? i believe so . For me it makes the material more meaningful and makes the understanding much better, you have the ability to retain the info much better and remember it more. Google has made the access of info a lot easier but the retention of all that info less memorable for the short term memory.