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Just coffee and croissants-the Chicago Sun Times had not been delivered at Starbucks for the 05:00 dawn opening.
Just coffee and croissants-the Chicago Sun Times had not been delivered at Starbucks for the 05:00 dawn opening.
I moved to on-line paper subscriptions for just this reason -my morning is ruined if I can't read the paper.
I need to physically hold the paper. Mainly the sports page gets read at Starbucks, while the commute covers all the other non-essential stuff.
I hear ya - Physical newspapers opened the world up to me as a kid and for half my adult life - but as on-line became popular, physical delivery became later and less reliable - my hand was forced.
The New York Times allows for ten free articles a month; though the Wall Street Journal is a closed off freebie. And all the academic journals/law reviews I can find
are all hit-and-miss, and the college lit stuff especially so. But I just love culling the internet for all low hanging free reading fruit.
it was the early morning access that forced my hand.
Besides which, these days the physical newspapers contain only parts of articles that end with "For the full story go to [website]", so you're almost forced to go to their website anyway. When we went to dinner Friday night a good friend had a copy of our hometown "Daily News"; it was literally no more than eight pages.I hear ya - I was kicking and screaming when I made the shift. Physical newspapers opened the world up to me as a kid and for half my adult life - but as on-line became popular, physical delivery became later and less reliable - my hand was forced.
One thing the internet has done for those of us who travel, you can buy a newspaper at the news stand that's been downloaded and printed off at a local newspaper printers, and rushed out with the local press. Pre-internet, we would buy a two, sometimes three day old (news?)paper, or whatever time it took to fly the papers out.I hear ya - I was kicking and screaming when I made the shift. Physical newspapers opened the world up to me as a kid and for half my adult life - but as on-line became popular, physical delivery became later and less reliable - my hand was forced.
One thing the internet has done for those of us who travel, you can buy a newspaper at the news stand that's been downloaded and printed off at a local newspaper printers, and rushed out with the local press. Pre-internet, we would buy a two, sometimes three day old (news?)paper, or whatever time it took to fly the papers out.