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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
You mean like handwriting or typing?
I mean, I agree with you on the whole, but that one just needed addressing, especially since you wrote it twice in your post.
Oops, I mean you typed it twice.  |
Good catch, LDB! And good examples.
I am not saying we need a new word for e-reading now or ever. I am just wondering IF someday a new word might arise and what that word might be. If it is not needed, it will not arrive. And if one word does arise, and it is not useful or beneficial, then it won't be adopted. On the other hand, all this is interesting to think about, if for no other reason to think about it.
One email correspondent who runs a top blog on these things from his office in NYC told me today:
"I'd say that reading on a screen *can* be qualititatively different than
reading as we have understood it, but does not necessarily have to be. I've
read narrative book-like material almost exclusively on screens for ten
years and I am seldom distracted by links. I focus on the text, particularly
with ebooks. But I know what you mean; different experiences are certainly
possible and are becoming widespread and it is something different than what
we have always called "reading" when you use a basic text more as a jumping
off point than as a narrative."