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Originally Posted by taglines
And my hunch is that future MRI scan studies will show that different parts of the brain light up when we read on paper compared to when we read on screens and that reading on paper is much better for such things as processing info, analyzing info, retaining info and emotionally taking in the info. Read the works of Anne Mangen and Maryanne Wolf and others in the field.
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Although there may be some differences in processing - particularly early on in the process (i.e. in getting to symbols from the visual data) - what makes you think that the processing of information read from paper would be different to reading it from a screen? I doubt this.
After reading on my ereader for a while, I forget the device and read the story - the experience becomes exactly like book reading from paper. My hunch is that this is because it is the same.
I don't think that we need a new word - it will take at most a couple of generations, I suspect, before "reading" will be assumed to mean reading from a screen.