The topic, and also the goal of this thesis is to explore the role of information and communication technology in reading habits and its application. Also, the aim is to examine the differences that students noticed when reading from the screen and reading from paper during many years of schooling and learning from different media, and their preferences. The survey questionnaire was completed by 107 students from the University of Zadar. The research showed that students most often read daily news from the screen, and some students also read popular magazines from the screen. Most students find that digital technology provides easy and quick access to important information and study literature. They mostly use screens for a skimming when choosing literature. They prefer to read longer text on paper and such reading is more pleasant for them than reading on the screen, and they find that in this way they read more carefully and understand what they have read better. Reading from the screen tires them out and they lack the physical experience of reading. Students are mostly unsure whether the habit of superficial reading is acquired due to screen reading. In their free time, they mostly read from paper. E-books are read by every other student surveyed, mostly in pdf format, from computers and mobile phones. On average, students believe that digital technologies do not jeopardize academic success, but among humanities students, some respondents still believe that technologies jeopardize their academic success.