The rough draft of my new manuscript is done, done, done! In fact, it's gone through one round of revisions. Now I need to run a spell-check on it (even though I can spell better than my spell-check can) and print it out. I'll do the second round of revisions on hard copy.

Why is it that a book reads differently on paper than on a screen (computer or e-reader?) I love love love my e-reader, but books just seem...well, different when you're turning the pages, when your bookmark is a physical object, when you can evaluate how far along in a book you are by turning it sideways and studying the thickness of the pages read and the pages unread.

I'm currently reading Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature Of All Things in a paper edition. I wonder what the experience of reading this book would be like if I'd downloaded it to my e-reader, instead.

I do know that reading a work-in-progress on paper enables me to look at it with fresh eyes and to give it the final polish it needs. So...within the next couple of days, I will be reading my manuscript on paper. There's still a bit of 20th century in me.