... were marginal at best on watching television, gardening, reading newspapers, magazines and books, shopping, telephoning, going to the pub, doing nothing, writing letters, sleeping, playing computer ... discontinuance of an innovation is a 1THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman Draft of chapter to appear in The Internet in Everyday Life, ... spending the same amount of time reading books and newspapers, and talking on the phone, Nie and Erbring (2000) find heavy Internet users cut back on use of all traditional media (television, newspapers,...