@ #2 George Beinhorn
Big mistake. MIT Media Lab study showed, years ago, that people make 40 percent more errors when proofreading on video displays than on hardcopy.

I took a course ten years ago which the prof teleconferenced to another school several hundreds away. We sat in a classroom with several big screens and could see the other class on one of the screens.

In accord with being up-to-date-in-Kansas-City, the professor required that all assignments be delivered via e-mail, for both in campus and long distance students. By the end of the semester, the professor had not handed back a single assignment. He also tried to be up-to-date by reading assignments from a screen instead of in hard copy, and typing in comments. He just couldn’t keep up with it. This was a professor who when dealing with hard copy assignments, returned them promptly and with copious comments. He was unable to do so with electronic documents.

Next semester he went back to students handing in hard copy assignments, with any long-distance students e-mailing it in and his printing them out.

I can curl up on a couch or in a lounge chair and spend hours reading a book. I am unable to do so from a computer screen. Regarding Kindle books, I don’t know.