The internet - creativity tool?

The internet saves a writers countless frustrating trips to the library (I say frustrating because I have always, apart from at Uni, lived in areas which need serving by a moblie library as well as cute, tiny, badly stocked physical libraries). But are writers addicted to endless net research? Accorting to the test, I'm not, but really, I'm not so sure.

More important to me is the question of whether the net saps or promotes my creativity - reading is always good, but the net, naturally, isn't quite the same as a good book (and I don't want it to be).

I suppose it depends on which websites I'm reading, but generally, yes…as well as being a perfect procrastination tool.

With the summer one-magazine-a-week madness over, I'll have more time for both creativity and procrastination. Hurrah, and fire up GoogleReader!