don't forget to recycle the plastic bags properly.

I said much the same the last time a subscription salesman (or whatever you'd call him) called me. The best rebuttal he could offer was that it might cause eyestrain.

I still prefer dead trees for novels, but it makes more sense to get news from the Web, which is faster and can receive updates and corrections throughout the day.

I may be an old luddite, and like Knat @2 I prefer dead-tree books, but I do almost all my news reading online lately. I haven't read a dead-tree newspaper in a couple years.

NYT online is way overpriced. The Guardian is better, and free, but I paid for their 'premium' level anyway, which has irrelevant additional goodies. Still like 10x cheaper than the Shillary Press.

I dumped my NYT sub because it was irritating to read it only on my PC and my iPad and not be able to read it on my phone, because doing so would have required me to pay for ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION. I love the Guardian and read it 2 or 3 times a week. I became a Guardian "supporter" (cheaper than a full subscription), and was blown away when they sent me a nice Guardian branded cloth bag all the way from London. It is very painful to hear that the Guardian is looking at laying off 20% of their staff, so I am considering springing for a full sub. The Seattle Times does some good investigative reporting, and I love Jon Talton, but, sadly, their editorial POV blatantly sucks. The wrong paper died. Thank you Stranger for being the right paper for these times.

Well? He's not wrong.

Not sure what the Seattle Times policy is, but NYT will let you suspend delivery anytime you're away from home and credit your account for those issues. So you'd save money and trees.

Wouldn't make for much of a SLOG post, though.

I'm old. Older even than Christopher. Almost as old as Dan. But even I, Methusalah though I may be, prefer to read the paper on-line.

I read the NYT in print free at Starbucks; the ST on-line. You have to pay for the ST on-line but at least you don't get the full-page advertisements which make up half the print paper.

Everyone probably knows this as I'm always behind on tech stuff, but you can look at the front page of the NYT on-line, find a story you want to read, google the title, and read the story free. I don't know why they haven't figured that out but they haven't yet.

Catalina, if you're not as old as Dan, you're just a young thing.

Wait, what? I grew up on newspapers, reading and delivering them when young and rarely read paper news print in paper form anymore.

I subscribe to a few print news media publications but why deal with the paper waste when I can get it online?

Hmmm maybe I should explain, when I say print news I mean conveyed in writing as opposed to by audio and or visual means.

#peopleofseattle

good for starting a fire, and not much else. fun fact: when i'm at the store i grab a stack of "the stranger" and use them to start a fire in my wood stove each night. thanks guys!

I have a weekend subscription to The Seattle Times and read the actual "paper" then, but during the week I read that paper online - the actual paper online, meaning the print replica with all of the ads and the articles in the same format as the dead tree edition. More convenient on the iPad or computer, but with the same "look". I want to support the concept of a newspaper, hence the subscription.

I refuse to pay for Seattle Times or Everett Herald because of their biased reportage. I get the paper NYT paper delivered but read mostly online in spite of the infuriating pay wall forcing you to type your log in over and over. I hate how reading the paper version gets stinky black ink all over your hands and it's just easier to handle the electronic version, plus you can google and tweet while you read.

For future reference, in addition to letting you suspend your subscription most papers let you donate x number of days worth of paper to local schools.

Chris: If you're so hellbent against online media, stop contributing to it literally every day of your life.