Grading

I have been terribly remiss in my blogging lately. It seems as if grading has overtaken my life in the past few weeks, but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. My students turned in their final papers this weekend. This is the only paper that I have required the students to submit online. Normally I prefer to have paper copies to save my eyes from further hours of computer glare, but I actually am enjoying the online grading this time. I think it has cut down on my grading time, which is nice, but I've also noticed that I am making fewer comments on the papers. Maybe it's grading burnout, I'm not sure yet. I don't think that I could switch to online submissions only (especially not for the research paper), but it is nice to have both options available. My main question is-am I getting lazy or is online grading more efficient?