"reading on paper" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the physical act of reading printed material, as in, "I prefer reading on paper, rather than on my computer screen."
"If the tech companies hope to absorb the totality of human existence," he writes, "then reading on paper is one of the few slivers of life that they can't fully integrate".
"In reading on paper, you may have to monitor yourself once, to actually pick up the book," she says.
But if we stop reading on paper, we should keep in mind what we're sacrificing: that nonlinear experience, which is unique to the codex.
In addition, 75.2 per cent said they enjoyed reading using technology compared with 56.7 per cent who said they enjoyed reading on paper.
Uncounted billions of printed words have migrated to the computer, but few people would rather read on screen instead of reading on paper.
The act of reading is going through a number of radical transitions, but perhaps none is more fundamental than the shift from reading on paper to reading on screens.
Asked why they preferred to read on screen, one pupil said: "When you read on paper, it's a bit boring, unless it's something you're really into and you might get into it.
In the meantime, I will start conjuring my next book, one that with any luck may still be read on paper by live human beings five years from now.
But there is one sort of news that readers do still want to read on paper: a blow-by-blow account of a game involving their favourite sports team.
Periodicals I mostly read online, whereas books, a lot of them, I still read on paper.
What you read on paper is not necessarily what you see onstage.
