As the printed book gained general currency, the Gutenberg Galaxy effected a revolutionary change in the propagation of information, access to information, and reading habits. The monopolistic position of the print galaxy was later sternly challenged by the Neumann Galaxy, which went on to pull down the barriers of space and time even, between information and the human being. Does the advent of e-information question the reading habits of the Gutenberg Galaxy? Does the e-galaxy produce new phenomena (like functional illiteracy, for instance), and what can we do about these? The standards of skills required to reading are on the decline, but reading as an activity is also gradually falling out of favour. How do these phenomena manifest themselves in the new generations that bear the features of the „digital native”? What types of readers can we distinguish in the reading habits that can be recognized as Gutenberg or Neumann Galaxy? Do mechanical-typographic and e-information develop parallel or contrary patterns of text reception? Or, perhaps, an interplay is also taking place? In order to be able to come up with an answer, we must take a closer look at the receiver of information, with special attention to whether there are shifts here from generation to generation, and what those shifts would be?