Maybe.  But staring at the screen too long makes me ill.  Plus I'm relegated to a desk-top.  Plus you can't jot notes in the margins.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

I am finding that reading free texts on my monitor screen has its advantages. With a 17"+ screen and zoom control legibility is no problem.  I don't particularly have a problem with eye fatigue, and being able to hyper link to a footnote has its advantages.  I can keep the on-line texts I frequent most in a bookmark folder and easily insert excerpts into compositions, vs. having to type and proof read.  Many older texts are available free online.  I have yet to find an adequate substitute for my old habit of inserting bits of paper at the top of pages of interest, so going back in a long text is a pain, but I am much more favorable to text on video than I would have thought a few years ago.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

I think the part of the problem with diaries like this is psychological - the format of the site encourages substantial, but not too long, diares. I started reading it with no idea how long it would be, found it very interesting, but didn't have time to study it carefully once I realized that it looked as though it would never end. A warning that it is long might help (but I might just skip the warning...). Another possibility might be to split the diaries inyo several of moderate length, and post them with a short interval between them. That might even encourage people to discuss the content of the diary, rather than its form.