[Leica] OT: Yawn

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Every morning when I step outside in my pajamas to pick up the newspaper 
from the front sidewalk, I wonder if that day will be the last. If they 
charged 3 times as much for the newspaper I would still pay. I need it. I 
depend on it.

I have a deep need for professional journalism with editors. Both print and 
image. I don't want blogs; I don't want tweets. I want to read something 
that a paid reporter or photographer has spent time and effort on, and a 
paid editor has approved and modified. Maybe there was even a copy editor 
involved.

Computers aren't right. Laptops aren't right. For lots of reasons, such as 
not being cuddly enough, not doing DRM properly, and so on. There's a long 
list.

I thought the Kindle might be right. It's great for reading books. But they 
don't have enough dynamic range, don't do color, and have a vaguely Amish 
way about them that I don't much care for.  The big one is too fragile, and 
it's still not big enough to read a magazine.

I think there's a chance that this new Apple iPad, or something that gets 
invented as a result of people seeing it, will be where people like me read 
the daily newspaper once the weboffset machines stop running.

I'm probably going to buy one to see what it's like to read a newspaper on 
one. I'm sure I'll find some use for it around the house if it turns out not 
to mix well with an armchair and a mug of strong black New Guinea Highlands 
coffee. I already have enough computers.