Researchers hypothesize […] that “reading a novel on a tablet or e-reader doesn’t feel like what reading a novel should feel like.” Far from this bothering me, however, I embraced it, and soon found myself no longer reading texts of all kinds in quite the same way; moreover, my sense of them being discrete began to erode, as I seamlessly switched from fact to fiction, from the past to the present, from the concrete to the theoretical and back again. Reading on paper, I had a tendency to have maybe ten or twelve books “on the go” at once. Reading digitally, this has expanded to scores, hundreds even.

Will Self, “The Printed Word in Peril,” Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 – 2021 (2022)