>>Hmmmm, fair point. I'd always envisaged a downloaded page, just as it came off the DTP, or just as a web page arrives. We don't tailor our web pages to our liking before we download them. Certain bits could have hotlinks on them (e.g. "For full story turn to page 5"), which would save page-turning. Besides, surely the people who'd subscribe to a tele-paper would be those, like yourself, who cherish the broad spectrum of cols, opinions, editorials, whatever, and would therefore not want to pre-select.
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>Not so sure that's true. Look at the people who are now getting all their news from the web. Many of them select only those sites that agree with their take on the world.

But these people are not those who'd buy the papers in the first place. ??
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>>Then again, do you actually ready every inch of your Sunday papers - the style mag, the TV mag, the sports supp., the fashion supp., the junk leaflest, the funnies, et al ad nauseum? These are the REAL culprits. Maybe you do, but I know plenty who just systematically discard the stuff that doesn't interest them. You probably flick through the wad of advert pages.
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>First, I get a small suburban paper, so it's not as thick as all that. (Why we don't get the Philadelphia Inquirer is a long story not worth telling. Leave it as my husband holds a grudge for a long, long time.) So I read proportionately more of it than most people do.

Whatever, I'm not focusing on you, personally, but people in general (and this is what I've found generally). I could have used "on" instead of "you" but then get jumped on for pomposity (even though other languages use this form as a matter of course) :-)

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>With the Sunday paper, Marshal always go through all the coupon inserts and pulls the ones we're likely to use. When I'm home, I always read the first four sections. Depending what else is happening that day, I may or may not look at the rest, including the magazine.

ditto

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>>Recycle or no (admirable btw) there's only so many times that paper CAN be recycled (one can use recycled toilet paper - but I don't think it gets recovered a second time! :-)
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>OTOH, we'll always need toilet paper, whether it gets made from recycled or not. <s>

I don't know so much. In Egypt they have these ingeneous little curved pipes, controlled by a tap, that direct a jet of water right to, erm, the heart of the matter, obviating paper.
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>>Don't get me started on aluminium cans - all that heat and energy to wrest it from its ore and fashion into a can, so someone can have a drink then discard it (recycled or no).
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>We recycle those, too, as well as glass, #1 and #2 plastic, and cardboard. I reuse grocery bags until they're beyond using. A rather significant proportion of the things we discard get reused and recycled.

I'm just the same. But it's the initial smelting of the al., and subsequent reheating to reuse that bugs me. You're a star but go tell it on the mountain cos the vast majority don't

Terry