Originally Posted by musiclover
I have a good internet connection and none of the problems that Notes describes arise.<…snip…>
I have a good Xfinity Internet connection, the problem is the paper site itself. No other site is consistently delayed like that.

Even if there were no delays for the pages to load, I'd still have to go through all 15 steps that I listed previously. With the paper newspaper, I just open it up and read. Instant gratification.

I've written about the CAPTCHA. After I put in my username and password, why do I need to solve the CAPTCHA puzzle? They give no answer. I assume it is so that Google can put a cookie on my tablet, and log ever article I read to sell to advertisers. In other words, it's spyware.

And why does it sometimes make me do it a few times, even though I definitely clicked the correct boxes? That one I can't figure out a reason for.

And sometimes I get the “we are having trouble—try again later” type message. Saturday, they don't print a paper newspaper, so everyone has to go online, the delays in the morning are horrendous, and the try again later message is not uncommon.

They have an app, a friend of mine warned me. He said they disturb you dozens of times per day with updates that contain ads, and there is no way to turn that off.

Originally Posted by MarioD
Notes, you forgot to add that you never have to stop reading a book or magazine because the battery was low!

That, too.

And if you like, you can read before bedtime without that blue light pollution that supposedly makes it harder to get to sleep (I never have that problem, even with blue lights).

Plus, I'm keeping a local person, the carrier, working. I've met him, he's a nice guy, drives an older car, and definitely needs his job. He spends money in our town, which helps our local economy.

There are some things that work much better online, but IMHO the newspaper and books are not better that way.

I read non-fiction books. Sometimes I put little bookmarks in pages I may need to go back and refer to. I can flip back and forth between the bookmark page and the one I'm reading.

And sometimes I come across something that I need to look up, and my trusty tablet is by my side, that's one great thing about the Internet. And I don't even have to close the book. The paper book and the Internet reference sites complement each other.



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