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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Think "electronic book". And we are done. All is well in the world. We don't need to invent new words to describe reading on a screen.
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Yes, that's pretty much my point, though your example of "electronic book" is not the same as mine. My point was that we
might in practice end up with a new word for the "old way" of reading, perhaps feeling the need to differentiate (in the same way we invented the retronym "acoustic guitar" to describe what was formerly just a "guitar" once the electric guitar came on the scene and established itself), but that the word "reading" would likely stay as the default for the dominant practice (eg. reading on a screen).
Cheers,
Marc