<p>We get the Times delivered every day, along with our local paper. DH is going nuts with all the recycling he has to carry out of the house. We are thinking it might be simpler to just read the Times on the Net. Has anybody tried this?</p>
<p>Being of the older generation, there is just something about reading the morning paper with breakfast that we just can’t forego. Also, there’s that bathroom thing…Fortunately, our recycling process here is extremely easy. However, both of my kids voraciously read newspapers only on line. Particularly my 24 yo S who reads several major papers from both coasts as well as the one in the midwest city where he goes to grad school.</p>
<p>Maize, I forgot the bathroom thing lol.</p>
<p>The NYT is only good for the weekend crossword puzzles anymore, and my online crossword subscription allows me to read whatever I want on their whole web site. At $35 per year, it’s a lot cheaper than the old-fashioned version. I have not yet cancelled my subscription to the Philadelphia Birdcage Liner, but I’m oh so close! Their crosswords stink, and the Evening Bulletin has been resurrected as a potential alternative (in the future…not there yet). I get most of my news through links from websites to the major blogs and mainstream media sources, so no, I really don’t need all that pulp tossed in my driveway anymore.</p>
<p>Gave up hardcopy years ago since I travel and was never home where it was delivered. Almost all my news comes online now.</p>
<p>You can set up a wireless home network for the same price as one year of the New York Times. Read at your desk? Certainly! At the breakfast table? Why not? In the bathroom? It’s none my business!</p>
<p>I also like reading at the breakfast table, sharing sections with my husband. And we like to do the crossword puzzle together during lunch, before he leaves for work. No, online just would not be the same.</p>
<p>Crossword puzzles are perfectly suited to printing and sharing. It’s the news that you don’t want to be wasting paper on. You could both purchase laptops and eat with them at the table. Think of the options . . . most PC laptops come with built-in cup holders.</p>
<p>“…most PC laptops come with built-in cup holders.”</p>
<p>Thanks for my laugh this morning.</p>
<p>I am addicted to usatoday.com, and do that crossword puzzle everyday online. For news, I also check news.google.com often.</p>
<p>Do you remember that gag email that was circulating a few years ago? It had something to do with “Merry Christmas from Coca-Cola” and when you clicked on it, it would make your computer’s cup-holder (i.e., CD-ROM drive) open. I also remember reading a list of funniest calls to Dell customer service…one of them had to do with a broken cup holder :)</p>
<p>Online news only in our house for about six months now.</p>
<p>I bring my laptop to bed with my coffee and nice fluffy pillows to prop me up and go through my morning routine…CNN Online first, then our local paper online, and if time allows I stop by the college online newspapers to see what’s going on in our sons’ lives. We’ve enjoyed not having the mess and recycling of all the print newspapers.</p>
<p>Never, it’s more relaxing to read a newspaper in my garden, where I can lay down in my swing, rock back and forth, feel the ocean breeze, and watch my beautiful garden( filled with flowers and vegetables that I started from seeds). It’s a picture of paradise.(j/k)
Seriously, I only read the news online at work.</p>
<p>One word: NEVER! I have been a security guard for too long than I care to admit now, and newspapers are my gold. I love the crossword puzzles, the JUMBLE (yeah!) and reading the sports, metro, and national section. The one thing I cannot stand is reading news articles off of the Internet. Even with Internet access at work (I unplug the office phone ;)) I still read the PD and USA Today cover to cover. Somethings must never change. </p>
<p>On a side note, recycling newspapers is a waste of time thing that only suburbs do to please their residents who think their donating the old fishwrap is doing their environmental duty. How many major cities do you know of who recycle newspapers?</p>
<p>Dak, it’s really tempting. I have kept the Net off my laptop, though, because it’s my work computer and I don’t want to be distracted. So…I would be reading on my desktop. Which means, I guess, that the newspaper would only distract me from my CC addiction! lol</p>
<p>Part of my concern is that, as a NY Times reader, I would feel bad not subscribing. I want to support a paper whose editorials I usually agree with. Of course, if I stop subscribing to the Times, with all the $$ I save I can pick up the Wall Street Journal online, which I enjoy, even though I don’t usually agree with the editorials.</p>
<p>Another option would be to just get the Sunday paper delivered…That would give us some paper to curl up with and some to read online. </p>
<p>Sorry…just obsessing here. ;)</p>
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<p>Its the only thing that keeps me from my CC addiction at work LOL</p>
<p>aparent5, that’s what I get, the Sunday paper. On weekdays I read the local so I can watch local real estate, don’t have that much time to read in the morning.</p>
<p>Our local newspaper is SOOOOO bad that it would be very satisfying to call up and cancel my subscription. But I can’t imagine not sitting down to read the paper every morning. Our area just got home delivery of the NY Times (Sunday only) so I think I’ll call and see how much that costs. It better get here early though!</p>
<p>You can’t curl up in bed with a cup of tea and read the internet on a rainy day…nor – unless you have a laptop - can you lounge out on the deck or at the beach reading…we only get the Sunday Post and Times anyway. (And out local paper is bad, too - but if you read it only for the obits and the editorials, who cares?)</p>
<p>The Washington Post has a freebie handed out at Metro stations that is like a McPaper…I’m sticking to paying 35cents.</p>
<p>Regarding toilet reading, my favorite line in “The Big Chill” is when Jeff Goldblum’s character says he writes for People for folks to use in the potty.</p>