Best argument I’ve heard yet ;)

Seriously, though, you make good enough points that I’m compelled to try it, but it’d have to be a local, local paper (like the Ballard News-Tribune) and I’d have to get a place with a driveway (my current routine would be: wake up, walk all the way across my building, ride an elevator, walk all the way across my complex, pick up paper, return).

I actually didn’t read any physical papers until about 5 months ago, when it suddenly occurred to me that I wasn’t really reading any news, period. I find reading most newspaper websites surprisingly distasteful, and when I want to share things, Google works quickly to give me a link.

I now use the newspaper as an excuse to drag my lazy butt out of bed early enough in the morning to have breakfast.

The surprising thing is how much I like the experience. Headlines and first graphs are surprisingly informative, when I’m short on time, and reading on paper is more relaxing than opening up my computer first thing in the morning.

schmanackronism that.

I’ve been trying to pin this down for a while, because I don’t hate print—I just can’t think of what would make me like it. I think it really comes down to two things: (1) I’m never at one location long enough to have something delivered to my doorstep every day/week (I usually end up at my apartment, but I’m in and out quick) and (2) I like to read the news with a mind to share what I’ve learned (re: link to it). I just can’t do either of those things with the paper (I guess the first is doable, but I’m a skimmer anyway, so the phone makes so much sense).

Hence my excitement with something like Wednesday Comics, which gives new use to something I just can’t find or justify any use for right now.

The funny thing is I subscribe to the Seattle Times in print and most of the time I end up reading a few comics and the front page of the local section – I get the rest of my news from the (gasp) print NYTimes and WSJ.

I know, I know, I’m an anachronism.