As a lover of books and the printed word, I love electronic text. It is portable. E-texts make it easy to find just the right piece of information. I can grab a page, copy it and paste it into e-mail for a friend. Digitization creates unprecedented access and minimizes issues of inequity.
Digital text is easy to transmit.
It is certainly easy to store. But as a lover of books, I realize I treat digitized text in a different way. I prefer not to read it in a relaxed or linear way. Actually, if I need to read anything longer than a few pages, I print my text. As impressive as this publishing medium is, I prefer to do my pleasure reading offline.