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[anotheoldgit]

Could not find the most appropriate topic on which to post this, but seeing it concerns newspapers perhaps this is ok.

What is most annoying is the fact that when reading them it is a constant battle keeping all the pages neat, together and tidy.

Why can they not staple the pages together as they do with the weekend supplement magazines?

[China Doll]

I completely agree with you.

Also, I find it impossible to read the broadsheets in the original format. I have to get the smaller version otherwise the living room ends up looking like a puppies conviniance area.

And they're impossible to open on the train if you've someone sitting next to you. I always envied people that could read big broadsheets sitting on a train.

[delboy3]

Yeah, my dad could do with that - by the time he's finished reading a paper, it looks as though he's about to decorate!

Probably the combination of extra weight & cost puts them off.

[4getmenot]

waste of staples, plus recycling the papers would be made more difficult

[Gromit]

We have coped without staples in our Daily Newspapers for more than 300 years. I suggest anyone who has not mastered the required technique should practice.

Or read an on-line newspaper.

[China Doll]

Or you could update your technology to include staples!

[anotheoldgit]

I always envied people that could read big broadsheets sitting on a train.

Yes how do they stop it blowing away China? I always read mine sitting in a train. (Sorry about that China but it just struck me as funny).

Don't they also recycle those Mags 4getmenot? I also didn't realise there was a shortage of staples.

If cost is an issue I would gladly pay a little extra for the sheer luxury.

[Gromit]

Or thread it with string and hang it up in the khazie, perhaps.

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry Gromit nearly forgot you, and your valued answers.

We have coped with many, many things over the years, but if we never invented or made things better, we would still be in the dark ages.

How did we cope without computers? It's called progress Gromit, get used to it.

[China Doll]

Lol! Yeah Gromit... get used to it!

And thank you for the amusing image of me trying to read my paper on the triain AOG... it certainly is rather windy up there.

[eyeshade]

Why can't they just make them smaller but hve more pages?

[4getmenot]

Yer they do but papers would be even more. I;m sure we can all handle a paper without staples by now

[jno]

good thinking, eyeshade, try to sell the idea to The Times

[anotheoldgit]

They do eyeshade, they are called comics.

[plowter]

Have your butler iron your morning newspaper before he serves you breakfast.

[jno]

AOG, I was being ironic towards eyeshade: the fact is, most newspapers have already done exactly that. The Telegraph and Financial Times are the only full-size broadsheet national newspapers left during the week. The Times and Independent are tabloids; the Guardian is in-between size. Don't any of these meet your requirements?

[andy-hughes]

I must be lucky, because i can read any size paper and keep it in order and crease-free.

My lovely wife on the other hand, can have a copy of the Daily mail, and within five minutes it looks like a small bomb has gone off in the middle pages.

Mystery to me.

[Kromovaracun]

I like reading broadsheets on trains (but that's probably because I can). You just have to fold it in various ways. It's also an excellently fun way to irritate the person next to you (after all, they can't turn around and ask you to stop reading the paper, can they?). This is particularly fun in 'silly season' when there's nothing that interesting the paper.

[Kromovaracun]

What irritates me about newspapers is the way that I always finish it with ink all over my fingers. Particularly in aforementioned train setting. Still, I don't take trains much anymore so I get most of my news off the web.

[weeal]

http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/package/0 ,21861,1160129-1160253-1,00.html

my boss taught me how to fold a broadsheet when I was 'young' and first started work in the 80's lol