After all my bitching about the Times paywall (and yes it does still make me grumpy) I signed up for a 2-week trial subscription on my nook. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to keep it at the end but it's getting more and more tempting every day. I'd forgotten how great it is to kick back with a good newspaper and just read for a while.
(I had an uncle in New Jersey who subscribed to five Sunday papers—four from New York City, including the Times, and the Newark News—and every Sunday he would stack them all up beside his favorite chair (if you've seen just the Sunday Times in person you can imagine how high the stack was) and then sit down, put up his feet, and read.)
Plus the electronic version arrives every morning without my having to fetch it from the curb or even put on my shoes.
The book I'm reading right nw, Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," is 462 pages long; today's (Saturday) Times is 626. I don't know how precise the concept of page is on a nook, but any way you count 'em that's a lot of newspaper.
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