you can store hundreds in your computer without covering your walls with shelves
 searching for quotations is a lot faster
 you can display it in big print, as big as you like it

the screen hurts your eyes
novelty requires more effort

 To start with, I put a background that does not hurt eyes, a not too bright grey, let us say like the one of this page, as you like it.

 The second important point: to have lines short enough to avoid waasting time looking for the beginning of the next line. I simply reduced the width of the window to about 10 cm (4 in).

 The size of the letters: I like choosing a fontsize that allows me to read far from the screen, 1 m (3 ft) or more, compared to 40 cm (16 in) with a paper book. I zoom text 120 or 150%.

 To scroll down text, you can use the mouse wheel, the keyboard arrows or the space bar. In the beginning, in order not to lose the last line I had read, I was selecting it with the mouse before scrolling down, but using the space bar, this last line goes up and always ends up in the same place.

 The bookmark: when I want to stop, I copy a line long enough not to be found twice in the book and I paste it in a txt document that I save as "bookmark.txt". When I want to start reading again, I open bookmark.txt, I copy the words selected and I ask my browser to look for them in the book.

This is an extract from the Canterville Ghost from Oscar Wilde zoomed 150% in a 12 cm (5 in) wide window as high as the screen.