'What if the newspaper industry made a colossal mistake?'

What happened?

Our paper dropped to three days a week and somehow managed to not print my father-in-law's obituary.

 

Does anyone know if Frederick has an opinion on this matter?

 

Three shitrags wanted to charge me a total of $3,100 for my dad's 200-word obit to run for one (1) day.

Gouging the bereaved you think you have hostage is always a good business strategy.

 

$3100? Good lord

 

I've never read one word from an e-book. And I have no intention of starting. Paper, please.

 

Slideshows equal clicks. Clicks equal money. More slides to show, more clicks to click means more money!

It's Gold Jerry, gold I tell ya!

 

It just sucks being able to take an entire library with you anywhere you go.

 

Yeah, well that's a thimble half full compared to what the funeral home wants.

 

That 200-word obit, had it run for one (1) day, would've cost three times as much as the urn we keep dad's ashes in. And it's a nice urn.

Newspapers can go fuck themselves.

 

Fredrick has been shamed. SHAMED!

(See signature below.)

 

You sure are an angry fellow.

 

Yep, that's one of the great things about it. There's nothing like being able to take pretty much whatever books you want with you, without ever lugging more than the half-pound or so that a Kindle weighs. I also love that it has its own light source, built-in dictionary, glare control and the ability to customize the fonts and font sizes to suit your visual needs.

I consider my $200 Kindle one of the most valuable, most useful and actually used things that I own, and it is one of the few material luxuries that I know I truly don't like to be without -- much more so than my phone or TV.