Because I’ve been reading off a screen routinely since I was four years old, I bet this is not true of me.

Other than a few rich people and those working in universities, I was in the first small wave of true digital natives. This despite growing up very poor. Luckily my dad had labor to trade as a mechanic and was obsessed with computers. (He would’ve sooner sold just about anything than get rid of our one old rickety computer we had when I was 4-7.)

If we’d had no computer in the house, my life would be very, very different and much worse.

I’m a lot more comfortable reading off a screen and always have been. Even more so now that fonts have improved so much due to the availability of high-DPI displays.

For some things – like field guides – physical books are still a bit better. For everything else, just give me a screen please.