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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
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.
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Ben, I suspect you are right, too, that "reading" will be assumed to mean reading from a screen very very soon, a couple of gens at most. Yes. Good point. But one never knows, new words come and go, and a new word might fit here, then again might not. We shall see. "Reading" fits fine for now. Maybe in the future too.
As for my hunches about processing etc, just hunches, personal experience, and some researchers have also written about, among them Anne Mangen in a UK journal, and Maryanne Wolf in her book "Proust and the Squid". But the jury is still out on all this, and I agree, we won't know for sure until MRI scan studies are done, and this will take another 10-15 years. I hope I am wrong.
I am glad to hear of your experiences of reading on a screen. I might very well be wrong. Let's see.