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It's funny you should mention this now because I've been thinking a similar thing about the Harry Potter books which I'm re-reading. I'm not only more engaged but my pages/hour rate has gone up. And I found myself wondering how much this is due to reading on paper. I'm well aware that there's other factors such as the simplicity of the prose (just finished book 3) and the fact that I just really enjoy them as stories.
On a related note, I finished Prisoner of Azkaban yesterday and was musing whether to go straight into Goblet of Fire or read another book for a change and come back to HP after that. I picked up Goblet and suddenly remembered the joys of ebooks - they're all the thickness of my ereader! That tipped me over so I picked up the paperback of the alternative (Bob Shaw's The Ragged Astronauts - a slim 310 pages) and was reminded of another: the font was small and ugly. Also as a 27 year-old paperback it's readable but I need to be a little careful with it lest it lose pages.
Ho hum. It really is all about the words at the end of the day.
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