Is That a Vook You're Screading or Are You Just Kindling?

While neuroscientists and child development specialists have been delving into the psychology of reading e-books and vooks (see The Medium Is The Screen, But The Message is Distraction), a blogger named Danny Bloom has occupied himself with the nomenclature.

Plain old "reading" simply doesn't seem to cover the various acts necessary to experience a multimedia vook that we have to click, scroll, screen, watch, listen to, and - yes - read. So Bloom, who has been aggregating on his blog a great deal of cogent information and articles about e-books, has proposed the word "Screading", combining screening and reading.

We buy it completely, and from now on, "Screading" it will be.

Bloom also brought to my attention that "Kindle" is now a verb. It may be a while before "Nook" achieves verb status, however.

RC