There’s been a discussion recently on the SHARP-List (see http://www.sharpweb.org/) about whether a new word is needed to distinguish on-screen reading from on-paper reading. FD thinks if I word is needed, it will emerge. But we have been thinking about the difference between reading on-line and reading on the page. We still love our printed version of the New York Times, even as it gets more and more expensive!
And we still (we think) prefer paper books for most reading. On the other hand, I do try to keep a book going via Daily Lit (see http://www.dailylit.com/), though only those available for free. Today I finished an old Agatha Christie, and need to think about what to choose next. I’ve done a couple of other novels and I suspect that I’d be better off with something non-fiction. Could this be my opportunity to actually read the Federalist Papers? or Confessions of an English Opium Eater?