Newspapers

As I have written yesterday, I read on my Kindle and in traditional Books. It doesn’t make a huge difference for me. But when it comes to newspapers, it does.

I subscribed to a daily newspaper during the Austrian COVID-19 Lockdown. I tested several as you can sign up to multiple for free for at least one month. I settle on a newspaper published in Vienna called “Der Standard”.

All newspapers I tried had the option to subscribe only digitally. I tried reading them, but most of the time just ditched it. With the real paper version, there wasn’t and isn’t a day where I don’t read large parts of it. Most of the time I wake up in the morning, collect it from downstairs and read the first two or three pages.

I wouldn’t do that with a digital one. Somehow the feeling of recycled paper between the fingers and the smell of the printer’s ink isn’t skippable.

I think that has to the with the fact that the value is easier estimated on something printed and thus harder to skip the reading of it.

For example, if you see an image of an expensive car, you know it is expensive and you could estimate a price, but if you would stand in front of it and feel the leather or high-quality paint job on it, you would immediately rate it higher than the one in the picture. I think even when both would be the same.

So, for now, I will stick to the printed version of a quality newspaper.