“Tired of that tangle of chargers, one for each digital thingy? Sick of those plugs that fit the sockets in San Diego but not in Sydney or Surrey? In dread of the ‘beep’ that tells you your screen is about to go blank?
“Well, say goodbye to recharging misery! Welcome to Print, to the book with pages you can turn, to the newspaper you can fold – to a world of reading pleasure that never shuts down. Put your book on a shelf. Toss your newspaper in a drawer. Take them out a week later. Take them out 100 years later. There they are, ready to be read. You won’t believe print’s download speed. There is no download speed! Print is always ‘on’!
See the full (rather smart and amusing) article here.
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Not necessarily. My neighbor, I think may be a hoarder. He has what I'd guess to be decades of newspapers stored in his carport. We live in Florida, the humid part. (Is there a not-humid part?)
I'm nearly certain there's not a readable newspaper in all of them.
Hee hee. Okay, there are exceptions to every rule.
A hoarder, but not an archivist. Sigh.... And here I still have an original first-printing copy of Henry Ward Beecher's Norwood, 1868. A bit stained, mind you, but still serviceable.
Save the books!
My husband (prepare for the aww shucks moment) has boxes of every newspaper issue I've written for (we're a weekly, but still, that's a lot of papers) in the last decade, and another box of magazines with the same purpose, and another box, which he says is waiting for the books he's sure I have locked up in "that wild mess of red hair"-- it's pretty sweet.
As the editor of the paper now, I can honestly say I get teary when a reader stops me and comments about saving papers to pull out and read on long winter nights (we're a bit Lake Woebegone, if you know what I mean).
There will never, ever be anything quite like the smell of well-aged paper. Or the thrill of finding words, still there, many years later.
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