Fiction

Reading words on a screen and on a page does not change the words in the slightest. Colorizing a visual image changes that image dramatically. I can't say I'd care either way about a cheesy movie myself, but if, say, a Titian was redone in neon, the intent and nature of the essence of the work - its visual appeal - would be changed. This is absolutely not the case with the essence of a book - the words - when they appear in different media.

Your subjective experience is of course yours, but makes little objective sense and smacks of conditioning more than aesthetics or function. What in the world can paper do to transmit recognizable signs that pixels cannot? In fact it can do far less - you cannot change the font or size on a printed page. Books exist to display words, which in turn create a mental image in the reader's brain. Whether they use ink or dots of light to display words makes no difference to the words themselves, or the image they create.

Browsing? Why would that be any different on an e-reader, especially with a huge number of free e-book sites available from Gutenberg OOP classics to torrent sites to new author freebies. I don't have to rely on a bookstore having stock, or put up with driving to one. I don't object to physical books in the slightest. Have hundreds, have had hundreds more; but unless I have some yen in the future for a big glossy coffee table vanity-piece I'll likely not buy another, and I manage to get "lost" in the nook versions quite easily. Now my subjective experience means as little to you as yours does to me obviously enough, but from the first I found the lighter, more powerful, more capacious and more efficient way of displaying words far superior in both function and aesthetics. My eyes read; my brain reads. My fingers just don't have any damn say in it and I'm not sure how anybody's could have.