I had forgotten how painful and beautiful the book can be. I have never managed to finish it, because reading it online tends to, after awhile, prove to be too much of a strain.
To remove much of the strain of reading online ,change the background color, and if possible background and text color. For web browsing, if you are using Mozilla or one of its derivatives, eg. Firefox, get an extension called PrefBar and install it.
Then change your preferences affecting color and perhaps font (Edit/Preferences?--menu depends on browser). -I use a light green or light blue background to cut the glare.
Finally, you can click new settings boxes to invoke your preference; or you click them off to revert to the way the web-page composer thought you would view the pages--usually black text on white background.
It is not 2010 yet, so the following might still be understood without a dictionary: The triumph of Microsoft and MS Word (over text WordPerfect) meant that for the next20+ years, hundreds of millions of people would spend multiple hours per day staring at white lightbulbs and reading text inscribed on them. Or the replacements for lightbulbs after 2000 when LED screens debuted, but lightbulbs were still used to illuminate living spaces. After 2010 lighbulbs will be remembered as archaic, but we'll still have light shining into our eyes when we read onscreen.
Doesn't have to be that way. Anymore than that you have to ride on skinny tires and change gears with brifters.
Harry Travis
DC USA