Proofing Galleys on Screen or on Paper? (or How I'm Procrastinating Now)

JohnnyGottaKeyboard said:

(I couldn't find an area better suited to this question, so I put it here in the General Section.)

When proofing your galleys, do you usually do it on screen (digital) or print it out on paper? Up til now I have always printed them, but this time I'm trying it on the computer but can't shake the feeling I'm missing stuff by not being able to view the thing in my hand the way a reader would.

Anyone else feel this way?

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I always proof on paper because I know I'm missing things when I read on the screen. It's just the way I'm wired. I'd save a lot of trees if I saw things on the screen the same way as I do in print.

Brian

Do both. You'll spot more errors that way.

I used to have to do paper galleys. No longer. Now they're on screen, and damned if I'm going to print them out, and try to do changes this way. Working onscreen is infinitely easier for me, and I miss no more this way than on paper. Less, actually. And changes are easy. Onscreen also makes going through a copy edited manuscript a hundred times easier, at least for me.

I'm a Luddite in many ways, but this is one area where I love technology, and I am not going back to paper.