>>>>My theory is that before long all newspapers will be the same size: the size of your computer screen. Or your e-Reader device, or your Palm, or your iPod, or your smart phone, or whatever -- your portable gizmo with connectivity. I have been having this debate with my best friend, who is a well known Tribune writer, for about five years now. He thinks I'm a technology crackhead. I think he is in denial. I can't wait to tell him how wrong he was [g].
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>>>I sure hope you're wrong. There's something truly pleasurable about sitting down at breakfast and opening the morning paper, propping it up to read and the like. The thought of trying to read it on a tiny screen is horrifying.
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>>Luddite! LOL
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>>But seriously, the device won't necessarily be small. I am sure small devices like cell phones will be used by some as e-Readers (as indeed they are now), but that would only be for those to whom compactness is essential. What I picture is something about the size of a magazine page. Given ongoing improvements in pixel resolution and the upcoming no-glare screens, they will be at least as readable as a magazine. All you will be giving up will be the ability to open up a paper newspaper to a size of 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet. Is that really a feature? Think about it.
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>One of the things I like about reading a newspaper as opposed to reading the news online is that I encounter things I wouldn't necessarily read online. I scan the whole paper (part at breakfast, part at lunch), stopping to read what catches my interest. I may read a paragraph of one article, a photo caption from another, all of a third. I just don't see an e-reading format lending itself to that kind of reading, at least not anytime soon.
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Tamar,

What makes you think those things would no longer be available to you? An e-universe (sorry for the clunky invented word) will contain more information, not less.

I am not pissing on you. You have been one of my favorite FoxPeople (can't say FoxFolk, Norm patented that, LOL) for longer than the UT has existed. We just see e-Readers differently, I guess.