A retronym will arise for its superceded equivalent.. - Marc Lawrence, former IT worker in Noosa Heads, says

Marc Lawrence in Australia tells me via an online forum:

RE: Do we need a new word for reading on screens?

"I think it more likely that, seeing as in the future we probably will read more often from a screen than from paper surfaces of books or newspapers or magazines...probably what will happen is that some word or term will evolve to encompass the action rather than the action evolving a new word, and a retronym will arise for its superceded equivalent (think "acoustic guitar" or "film camera"). .....Thus, reading will still be "reading", but reading a paper book may be...oh, I don't know, but likely as simple as the examples given...something like "pbook reading" or "paper reading". .......I guess we can hypothesize about future words, but I suspect we'll no more control or even steer it than we do most developments and evolutions and contributions to language - it just happens. doesn't it?"

WELL SAID, SIR. -- Danny