Mihir S Sharma: Screens and paper

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It is likely that I have been reading books on a screen for longer than most people have. And, of the books I read today, fewer than a third are the regular bound-paper kind. But, still, I have to admit this: there are some ways in which screens just don't work. I got my first laptop computer in 2000 - a top-of-the-line Thinkpad I couldn't really afford - and, shortly after that, I discovered e-books. There weren't many around at the time; mostly, it was badly formatted and poorly spell-checked classic novels, on Michael Hart's Gutenberg.org. But for a congenitally lazy ...

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Mihir S Sharma: Screens and paper