The cognitive mechanisms involved in reading and understanding texts online are sufficiently different from those involved in reading text on paper...

Dr Cohen adds: "Zippy1300 claims, and I believe rightly so, that the cognitive mechanisms involved in reading and understanding electronic texts are sufficiently different from those involved in reading printed books to justify the existence of a different word for reading e-text on your computer monitor, Kindle, BlackBerry, or iPhone."

Patrick at the University of Georgia in the USA says:I saw your recent posting on Linguist List regarding the need or use for a new word for reading on a screen, and I also
briefly scanned your blog, and just wanted to say.... I agree.

I think most
would also find the difference between text on screen and text on
paper to be salient enough as to warrant using a different word for
text on screen.

One may wonder if the word be coined and used widely
as a result of your question or via some other process....At any
rate, I thought it was a pretty interesting posting, so please keep
Linguist List informed should anything significant arise from it.