Who still prefers the printed page?

[Zymurgy]

This may seem crazy, but this morning in the early twilight I see my first of my last 12 deliveries of a Sunday paper. Instead of going back to bed, the anticipation of a quiet morning's read, wins over additional sleep.

I stopped getting the Columbus Dispatch a few months back, the $5 paper was now over $9 delivered, and not nearly the paper of a decade ago, and the local paper doesn't even exist anymore. My 12 week subscription is a special rate of the Times. There absolutely no comparison to the Dispatch.

I still prefer to read a physical paper for my news, especially on Sunday, when I have the time, so this is my last hurrah of enjoying my early Sunday morning read.

 

[commando1]

This may seem crazy, but this morning in the early twilight I see my first of my last 12 deliveries of a Sunday paper. Instead of going back to bed, the anticipation of a quiet morning's read, wins over additional sleep.

I stopped getting the Columbus Dispatch a few months back, the $5 paper was now over $9 delivered, and not nearly the paper of a decade ago, and the local paper doesn't even exist anymore. My 12 week subscription is a special rate of the Times. There absolutely no comparison to the Dispatch.

I still prefer to read a physical paper for my news, especially on Sunday, when I have the time, so this is my last hurrah of enjoying my early Sunday morning read.

I read this on my tablet....

 

[Wildbunch02]

Im with you on that, reading the news on-line is no where near as satisfying as starting your day your favorite newspaper and a cup of coffee.

 

[jct]

You could always print it out

 

[roadcuda]

I gave up on it a few months ago. I did enjoy turning the pages and if I wanted to save an article it was as simple as getting the sisors out. But then they started to raise the rate every 3 or 4 months. I'd call and complain threatening to cancel then they'd give me a better rate only to wait 6 months and raise them again. So I opted for getting the paper electronically. It is cheaper and I get the paper no matter where I am as I drive trucks and am on the road a lot.

 

[65sporty]

I have never been a big newspaper reader, but car magazines is another story. I still love the printed mag over it online.

 

[Newport 66]

I get most of my "news" via the web. But for recreational reading there's nothing better than turning pages. It's my homage to simpler and better times and lifestyle.

 

[1978 NYB]

I dont read anything on print format anymore.

Use to see the morning paper scattered all over the neighbors yards. Not a single one now.

 

[imperialman]

We received the local paper delivered to our doorstep for ten years plus.
A new delivery person with a I don't give a fu#k attitude ,combined with me having to walk out to the curb to retrieve a wet paper took care of our reading print.

 

[Xenon]

Yeah,, sukz,, no more newspaper..
Now what the helll am I to use for masking paper.... grrrr!!!

 

[CBODY67]

When I would be in Columbus for my annual trek to Mopar Nationals, I'd always get the Dispatch to read and see what was going on up there. Always liked it, especially the coverage of the then-last department store closing in downtown Columbus.

With a print version, you can wander back and forth to read things, especially the classified ads for cars and such. With the online version, more segmented in what you see.

Bad thing about print versions, disposing of them after you read them. Went to the online version of the local, smaller town newspaper, now owned by a regional conglomerate of other similar papers. It's in a full page format, so you see it all, but can look at articles in a larger size for better reading. Easy to navigate.

I used to subscribe to many car magazines. Hot Rod, Motor Trend, Car Life, Cad and Driver, Road and Track, and bought some others at the newsstand, as I desired. Car Life got absorbed into Motor Trend about 1970 or so. Hot Rod got a then-new editor and things changed a bit, especially after Peterson Publications sold out. Last one I stopped subscribing to was Car and Driver. I used to get new subscription offers, or extension offers, to where it was very cost-effective to do so. I ended up with about 10 years of paid subscriptions at one time. Then I evolved into a "buy what you want" rather than a subscription. As the archived magazines grew too much. Then some of the editors at C&D changed and I didn't like it as much. Cars and such changed too. PLUS, in more recent times, the print size seems to have decreased significantly! Harder to read than in prior times. I now look at HotRod.com when I get the itch to do so. Now they are all in a "network" of sorts with all of the buy-outs over the years. And there are even better online magazines, as www.EngineLabs.com (and all that it's connected to).

My grand plan is to scan lots of those old magazines for www.wildaboutcarsonline.com, as a contribution to their projects. Haven't got there yet. Then I'll probably sell them on eBay or similar. Of particular interst would be the many parts catalogs I accumulated when most auto supplies started moving toward a computerized catalog format. Some of those old PerfectCircle/Dana/Spicer books are priceless as they were printed in the later '60s-middle '70s eras. Back before many things were later superceded into "combined applications" rather than OEM-specific applications. Ought to keep me out of trouble in my "retirement"?

Like the printed format, just the issues of what to do after you read them.

CBODY67

 

[jct]

I no longer read car magazines, when they inly cover the same types of cars every issue talk about a snooze feast

 

[TxDon]

I still get the Dallas Morning News delivered every day, I won't say how much it costs but is an extravagance. I also get many paper magazines and club publications. I spend a lot of time online every day for my business but I deliberately do not get my news there. I like the feel of reading material in my hands and at my age that will not change.

 

[CBODY67]

The Internet has been a multi-faceted forced the "news industry" has had to deal with for quite some time. Moving from a time when the only "electronic media" was radio/television to what we now have. Plusses and minuses on each side of the discussion. One observed problem is that people can now get only the segments they desire, rather than "all of it" in a printed newspaper format. Where newspaper editorial boards drive the content rather than otherwise, for example. Seeing what "the other side" is doing takes more efforts now, it seems.

As with the addition of satellite and cable networks to audio and video, about the time I thought we had too much, something new came out that I liked. Still, too many sources for similar content, to me. So you make choices about how to spend your time and money. Less can be better! IF you choose correctly.

CBODY67

 

[BigblueC]

For my news, I'm fine with on-line stuff, and prefer it as it's quicker and cheaper. Most of it's garbage now days, but I like to keep up with what's going on. Magazines I'll take either way, but when it comes to books I'm all print with no exceptions.

 

[Zymurgy]

My 1st Service Manual was a CD. It is honestly hard to follow, when I would make it big enough to read, it was no longer a whole page on the screen. I usually always printed out, what I was going to work on. It took me about a month to buy a hard copy. Definitely money well spent. Quicker to find what you need too

Only time I reference the one on the computer is if I left my SM in my shop.

 

[3C's & a D?]

I prefer the printed page, however when you realize that they're all feeding you the same slop, and there are some exceptions, it doesn't matter how you get it. Our City used to have two local "Arts" newspapers, they merged into one a few years back and recently printed their last issue. Comic from that issue. Someone's paying nine bucks for a paper?

 

[barnfind]

Couldn't wait for the new auto trader to come out.

 

[Fury440]

Before wifi and the internet, life was easy, the little magazine holder in the throne room was stocked with Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Popular Electronics, National Geographics, Reader's Digest, Farmer's almanac, Guinness book of records and a Sears Catalog. Old issues were not removed, simple stacked with easy reach.

Old folks saved the daily newspaper to be read front to back on the table beside their living room easy chair. There was a pecking order, the pristine newspaper was placed on father's table. Nobody was allowed even a sneak a peek before the Lord of the Manor had his fill. I think being able to hold the full size newspaper up was bit of a right of passage. My father would puff his pipe like a steam engine behind his newspaper wall. If interrupted he would fold one top corner over and glare at the source of interruption.

Today, the throne room library is gone, the material either no longer in print or the tiny print no longer readable. My library has been replaced with a Kobo reader.

My printed newspaper was discontinued a few years ago when the ratio of news to advertisements got completely out of hand. News today arrives via local TV news and Google news. Unfortunately those media are more commercials than actual news. Now everything is either "fake news" or Amazon advertising.

I miss people like Walter Cronkite and Lloyd Robertson.

I think the information highway is broken.

 

[imperialman]

"I miss people like Walter Cronkite and Lloyd Robertson."

I do also.
I was just commenting at work last week that for the most part news now never gets just reported.

There always seems to be a slant,or some agenda to how its presented .