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Kicking Ink: The Guilty Pleasures of Print

Source: MediaShift

Oct 22, 2009

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On a recent trip to Washington, D.C. for "Public Media Camp," it happened again. I was tempted by print.

Starting in May, I gave up my print newspaper subscription, and then compared how the iPhone beat the Kindle when it comes to reading periodical publications on electronic devices.

My fingers have remained relatively ink-free each day because I get my news fix electronically. But what about when I get out of my hermetically sealed home office chamber and head out into the wild? I sat down innocently at the airport gate for my hour of repose, and next to my chair was an abandoned San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.

Before I knew it, the newspaper was in my hands and I was leafing through the pages. I noticed that the actual size of the newspaper had shrunk since I last read it in print, and I saw that many articles in the print paper are not included in my Kindle edition (not to mention box scores, listings and many graphics). While I've sworn off getting a print subscription to the newspaper, that doesn't mean I can't read it out around town or while travelin

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