On June 1 the Boston Globe raised its weekly rate for home delivery by 50%, to $12.25. That’s over $600/year. With my home delivery subscription up for renewal, I decided to cut back to the Thursday-Sunday plan, at the same $8/week rate I had been paying for a full seven days.
A while ago I installed some software, run on Adobe Air, that downloads the Globe and saves a week’s worth on the hard drive. The Globe is available online, of course, but on my netbook I like using the reader, despite the fact that not all of the paper’s contents are included (adding the comics would be nice). Navigation is easy, the layout is cleaner than on the Web pages, and the ads are much fewer and less obtrusive.
The reader automatically adjusts for the screen resolution. So, for example, on the netbook’s 1024×600 display there aren’t as many photographs embedded in the stories as on my desktop’s 1280×1024 monitor. This is a screen shot of how the player looks on the 9″ netbook screen. The story is, ironically, about the most recent drop in circulation for the two Boston papers.
