This man needs an editor who can spot spelling and grammar mistakes. I saw three just scanning the article. Sloppy, real sloppy.
“Sloppy, real sloppy”
Dear fellow freeper, don’t you know it’s the intent, not the substance, that counts?
By your context, "just skimming" would have been more appropriate --
but on the other hand, one online dictionary has conflicting definitions for scan:
1. to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
2. to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize.
3. to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large expanse; survey.
4. to analyze (verse) as to its prosodic or metrical structure; read or recite (verse) so as to indicate or test the metrical form.
5. to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, esp. using an optical scanner.
6. Television . to traverse (a surface) with a beam of light or electrons in order to reproduce or transmit a picture.
7. Radar . to traverse (a region) with a beam from a radar transmitter.
8. Medicine/Medical, Biology . to examine (a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material) with a scanner.
Cheers!