I don't use an e-book reader, but I do read books on my iPhone and I frequently use online editions of texts, both old and new (I read a lot of... um... Harlequin Romance e-books...
I think they do. I've also noticed this in editing my own work: I read it very differently on and off screen. I'm actually doing a lot of stuff as a sort of grad school side project right now on publishing and reading and online vs. offline and e-texts vs. paper text editions...
I mean, there's so many more options than just ebooks too. Ebooks themselves can be so different. Take a look at Des Imagistes (http://www.desimagistes.com), a compilation of imagist poetry - it's available on that site in both PDF and HTML version (I worked on preparing it for online publication, LOL). We purposely tried to make the HTML version quite like the book version but it's still a completely different experience...
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I think they do. I've also noticed this in editing my own work: I read it very differently on and off screen. I'm actually doing a lot of stuff as a sort of grad school side project right now on publishing and reading and online vs. offline and e-texts vs. paper text editions...
I mean, there's so many more options than just ebooks too. Ebooks themselves can be so different. Take a look at Des Imagistes (http://www.desimagistes.com), a compilation of imagist poetry - it's available on that site in both PDF and HTML version (I worked on preparing it for online publication, LOL). We purposely tried to make the HTML version quite like the book version but it's still a completely different experience...