I can not imagine trying to read an entire book online. El Cupa hit on one point, how do you highlight a section? I guess you’d have to make a printout and then do it. I also don’t want to be tied to my computer when I read. I’d like to be able to take it with me and not worry about whether I’ll run out of battery time. I’m not the world’s fastest reader.

There is also something enduring and more permanent about print than the flash of light on a screen. Information in HTML can be easily and quickly changed with just a few strokes of code. I know when I need to do serious research we’re coached to avoid the internet unless it can be backed up by a printed article or book reference. One only need to look at the mistakes on Wikipedia to know how much misinformation makes its way out as fact. Websites come and go, but the printed article is permanent. I believe people who publish in ink go to greater lenghs to make certain something can be backed up, because it’s permanent, than someone who can just delete the entire thing in a keystroke.

I am teaching at bsu now and our book is completely online as well as in the bookstore, and people buy the book anyways. It is so hard to read online. If we want to talk about our new generation and our ADD, there is NO way we will be able to sit down and read an entire newspaper online.

Although I’m afraid the answer will be not reading the paper at all.

I had heard that some of the television stations that are going digital may even rent their sub channels to distribute newspapers and other media over the air. The changes are going to be interesting, to be sure.