On Paper
Since I’m never that far from my Mac Pro or my MacBook, I’m never that far from the internet and therefore the news. Over the last few weeks though, I’ve been reading more and more of the blogs at the Guardian.co.uk site. Being at university and in a house away from my parents there are no newspapers in our house and I’ve only recently been reminded of this through the Guardian’s website.
Anyway, today I thought that I’d try and rectify this, so I bought a copy of the Guardian this morning on the way to College. Now this probably seems like such a trivial thing to most people, but although on the internet you can access much more detail, as it happens and in great detail, there is something beautiful about sitting back with something physical in your hands. Being able to flick through and skim read stories you may not otherwise navigate too, the pictures, the comments, the letters and even the adverts. Even though all these things exist on the internet, and in greater numbers, there is something that fills me with content as I hold a paper out and wrestle with the folds and pages. It must be the smell. Or maybe its the Su-Doku…