Screen Reading Quotes

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read 'Wordplay' just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.