Hey,
I am, like most Kindleboards people I'm sure, a voracious reader. I used to read the entire Philadelphia Inquirer every day, and the New York Times every day I could get my hands on one -- back in the days before I was a mother of three with an out-of-the-home job as well! It's probably been ten years since I have read the newspaper with any regularity at all, though my mom teases me because whenever we go to my parents' house for dinner (probably about every two weeks) I pick up whatever newspaper is lying around and greedily suck it in when I'm "supposed to be" socializing with my mother of course
So yesterday being Mothers' Day and all, I decided to take a chance -- and I bought myself the Sunday issue of the Inky for the outrageously low price of $0.50
I have to say, I was surprised at how wonderful the Kindle edition of the paper is! I can not tell you how happy it made me feel to be able to:
-skip immediately to the next article without flipping back a gazillion pages
-review the available articles in list form
-read to my heart's content without getting my fingers dirty
-use the dictionary to explain arcane sports terminology without having to ask someone and get laughed at
-be able to skip from section to section at the flip of the controller instead of fumbling with stacks of paper
Honestly, I love the Kindle newspaper experience. I should probably write a review on amazon. I was just seriously so happy. I don't think I'm going to subscribe because I just wouldn't have time to read all the papers, but I will definitely be buying occasional issues now and then. I never thought I would enjoy it this much! I have a lot of emotional luggage associated with newspapers. When I was little I would read the papers with my grandfather - he would spread all the English language ones all over the living room floor and I would lie on my stomach and go from section to section and read them and sometimes take him a page I thought he would be interested in while he sat in his chair and read his German papers. So I thought maybe I would miss the feeling of the actual paper but you know what? I still think of my grandfather when I'm reading the paper on the Kindle. I don't need the actual newsprint. So there.

I am, like most Kindleboards people I'm sure, a voracious reader. I used to read the entire Philadelphia Inquirer every day, and the New York Times every day I could get my hands on one -- back in the days before I was a mother of three with an out-of-the-home job as well! It's probably been ten years since I have read the newspaper with any regularity at all, though my mom teases me because whenever we go to my parents' house for dinner (probably about every two weeks) I pick up whatever newspaper is lying around and greedily suck it in when I'm "supposed to be" socializing with my mother of course
So yesterday being Mothers' Day and all, I decided to take a chance -- and I bought myself the Sunday issue of the Inky for the outrageously low price of $0.50
-skip immediately to the next article without flipping back a gazillion pages
-review the available articles in list form
-read to my heart's content without getting my fingers dirty
-use the dictionary to explain arcane sports terminology without having to ask someone and get laughed at
-be able to skip from section to section at the flip of the controller instead of fumbling with stacks of paper
Honestly, I love the Kindle newspaper experience. I should probably write a review on amazon. I was just seriously so happy. I don't think I'm going to subscribe because I just wouldn't have time to read all the papers, but I will definitely be buying occasional issues now and then. I never thought I would enjoy it this much! I have a lot of emotional luggage associated with newspapers. When I was little I would read the papers with my grandfather - he would spread all the English language ones all over the living room floor and I would lie on my stomach and go from section to section and read them and sometimes take him a page I thought he would be interested in while he sat in his chair and read his German papers. So I thought maybe I would miss the feeling of the actual paper but you know what? I still think of my grandfather when I'm reading the paper on the Kindle. I don't need the actual newsprint. So there.