I Own Fountain Pens and Typewriters and You Can Pry My E-Reader from My Cold, Dead Hands: In which I tell you why I love reading from a screen

Picture it. 1996, a auditorium deep within the campus of Radcliffe College someplace. 100 students of the Radcliffe Publishing Course are scattered around the room while an expert on publishing talks about what’s expected in the near future.

He says something like, “…And they’re talking about reading from screens! You won’t even need to turn the page. You’ll be lying in bed, this thing on your…