I like to read the paper. On paper. I like to read a paper with a lot of news, if not the most news (compared to other papers). That would seem to be the New York Times. I subscribe to home delivery with a Friday, Saturday, Sunday subscription which also gets me the online/mobile experience. What I like about the printed edition is that the importance of articles is indicated by size and placement, and I can scan more headlines at a glance. The pictures are bigger. Oh, and it's not online. I spend most of my week looking at a computer screen, and it's a nice treat to do some old-fashioned reading from print.
Recently, however, my eyes have gotten worse, and for whatever reason, the print seems to be lighter. I think the paper is printed here in Minnesota and sometimes the print is light enough that it's hard to read, even when under a bright light. This has made me wonder about switching to the mobile edition, where I can control brightness (and font size, though I'm satisfied with the default font size on mobile).
But remember that I like the print edition's sequencing of articles, the size of headlines, and so forth. This has made me wonder whether I would really be satisfied with the Today's Paper feature. You can see the web version of this by going to https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper. There are subtle differences between the web and mobile experiences which I will touch on. Also, I should note that there was an old site called app.nytimes.com, which has been...
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