<p>This past March, the two dailies went fully electronic, with paper delivery only on Thursday, Friday and Sunday.</p>
<p>I miss sitting in my recliner before I get ready for work, drinking my coffee and reading my paper. Now I read it on the Blackberry. I really am not interested in going to the computer 1st thing in the morning to read the paper.</p>
<p>The sad part is, I don’t like to sit at a desk and read the paper on the computer. Now I just get snippets or make an effort to read it. The flip side is I have CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, ESPN and TMZ (what!) on the Blackberry. I end up knowing more about national and global news than local.</p>
<p>And yes, we have a subscription to the e-version, but it’s not the same.</p>
<p>Amen, silver! I miss my daily Free Press! I miss my morning routine. I miss the feel of newsprint. Call me a dinosaur, but the computer just isn’t the same.</p>
<p>And I think the quailty of the papers that I do get on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday are not nearly as good as before. Have you noticed the book page in the Sunday paper? it’s more like a book paragraph…</p>
<p>I am pretty easy going about a lot of things but if my paper is late I get upset. Like you I love having my morning coffee and reading a real newspaper, not some online version. You have my sympathy, this is a big fear of mine.</p>
<p>You know, if it weren’t for the Detroit papers, Kwame Kilpatrick would still be the mayor of Detroit; it was the local newspaper reporters who uncovered the whole text-message scandal. My deeper concern is that if this abbreviated home delivery doesn’t stop the bleeding, the Detroit paper could disappear entirely…</p>
<p>My husband and I aren’t happy about the demise of the newspaper. As other posters said, reading it on the computer just isn’t the same. The headlines don’t jump out, there isn’t a whole page at once, the “feel” isn’t there, etc. I’ve been reading a daily paper since I started delivered them at age 12, and fear those days are numbered. Our locals still print daily, but it’s not going to last much longer…sigh.</p>
The reporting of the text message scandal is what kept me subscribing for a year past what I was going to. I got so far behind that they began to stack up. I also get the Oakland Press and two papers a day was getting to be too much. But I kept the Free Press because of their reporting. But then they went to delivering three days a week and charging us more to read it online so I cancelled altogether.</p>
<p>I quit getting a paper a long long time ago after realizing how much waste there was in it in sections I never would read - advertisement inserts, gossip sections, sports sections, classifieds, opinion section, etc. I consider them a waste of paper, trees, ink, gasoline, refuse dumps, etc. Newspapers are a thing of the past and I’m glad to see them go (despite having been a paper delivery boy). I know it’s an adjustment for some people though. Maybe you can compromise and get a Kindle to read your paper electronically while in your chair, sprawled on the floor, in the bathroom, or whatever. It’s a thought.</p>
<p>My husband is holding out to see if the papers will go to Kindle. Right now they don’t. I fell as if my subscription to the e-version is just a donation. Also the kdinle is kind of pricey.</p>
<p>I bless every morning that I still get to spread paper and ink across the breakfast table and dig in. As time goes by the paper gets thinner and thinner and more and more of the articles end in "for more info, go to <a href=“http://www…%5B/url%5D”>www…</a>…
Having just a few news oulets in a big city meant that they homoginezed the news. As news becomes more fractured, everyone will find a news source that looks mainstream but projects their particular views. Kind of like trying to keep track of who is which in the middle east…</p>
<p>New Jersey’s flagship paper The Star Ledger is a thin ghost of what it once was. Take out the ad circulars and you can spit through it on most days. We still get it delivered, but we already miss what it once was. And I’m too old a bunny to start enjoying my morning coffee with a something like a Kindlel.</p>
<p>I never liked having to deal with newsprint - either on my fingers or the paper disposal. I much prefer the electronic stuff and there’s enough local stuff for me to read. I have a bunch of high-resolution screens though which makes reading traditional media on a screen decent.</p>
<p>I only read newspapers in the lunch room at work because I cannot carry a LCD screen during break time. I read most breaking news on my widescreen LCD.</p>
<p>I wasn’t thinking about newspapers when I got my Kindle but now one of my favorite things to read on it is the big Sunday newspaper from a major metropolitan east coast city. That Sunday paper costs $5 dollars here, but is only 75 cents on the Kindle. It has only a few pictures and no ads but lots and lots of words. And sections that you don’t get here in the print version. </p>
<p>And yeah the Kindle is pricey but so’s an ipod. I think of the Kindle as my ipod.</p>
<p>I missed my newspaper about 3 years ago, when they began to “dumb it down”. First the Arts section turned into a “pop music & TV” section. Then my advice columnists were thrown to the wolves. Then the weekly At Home section became Martha Stewart lite, and disappeared altogether. Then there were more articles about pseudo-celebrities than news. And of course the prices continued to increase.</p>
<p>Now the paper’s in jeopardy of closing forever. Wonder why?</p>
<p>I like a real paper and I like real books, I spend my day in front of a computer screen, I don’t want to get a kindle. I don’t want to join the new millenium technology for my reading.</p>
<p>Reading the entire paper, cover to cover, local stories, police blotter, ads, etc is a ritual.</p>
<p>I’'m just going to ride home in my buggy and read a book by kerosine lantern now</p>
<p>Reading the Sunday paper while enjoying a lazy breakfast of eggs and pancakes is one the highlights of my week. When we are done with the paper and our breakfast, we migrate to the couch and surf the web for a few minutes. Eating Sunday breakfast while staring at the laptop screen? No, thanks!</p>
<p>Hey, Bunsen, do you live in my house? Sunday morning breakfast with the paper, reading the sections in JUST THE RIGHT ORDER (front page last…), and watching “CBS Sunday Morning.”</p>
<p>Speaking of actual reading, my childhood friend said it’s rather pretentious to pick up a book and read when one can watch a video about the subject if it’s available. Among various reasons besides the one mentioned, I no longer talk to him.</p>