Re:Newspapers on the Kindle (Score 2, Interesting)

I've owned a Kindle 2 for three weeks. I subscribe to the NY Times on it. Having it automatically delivered to the Kindle every morning is great! I don't even need to get out of bed. I spend about an hour each morning reading the articles. I don't use the table of contents; I prefer to read linearly from front to back. Doing so has certainly led me to read many more articles than I normally would have using something like Google News. It's this kind of "serendipitous reading" that makes reading a magazine or newspaper so much more enjoyable than cherry-picking articles on a website. If the article is accompanied by a compelling picture, I'm even more likely to read it.

The news industry is gravely worried that ability for websites and our browsers to filter and deliver exactly the kind of information we are specifically interested in will negatively impact our society in the long run. Sure, I can focus your reading to just the articles I like, but that's the problem: I'd rarely read alternative viewpoints or stumble across previously-unknown subjects. It's been a real pleasure.