For
1. on Sunday mornings we prefer to bring the tray with coffee and croissant and paper to bed rather than the one with the apple on it. Anyway, what was the password for the e-paper app again?
2. it is unlikely that our eyes are rarely presented with a screen.
3. solve Swedish puzzles and Japanese logicals on your cell phone? Possible. But horrible.
4 Haptics means perceiving something with all the senses. In this case: looking, touching, smelling, the meditative rustling as you turn the pages. This makes the brain more active and better able to memorize what it has absorbed.
5. you will be amazed at your attention span if a message doesn’t pop up every 30 seconds!
Against
1. in the age of push notifications, what is written by the editorial deadline is yesterday’s news by the next day. Digital articles, on the other hand, are constantly being added to, shortened, updated…work in progress!
2. paper is made from trees. To produce the former, you have to fell the latter. No good!
3. if you open your broadsheet on a crowded train, you’ll soon have the people sitting next to you on your tail – and in the worst case, your fingers in someone else’s nostril.
4. less paper costs less money – leaving editorial teams with more budget for the essentials: independent, carefully researched journalism. Theoretically.
5 Steps, sub-zero temperatures, neighbors in the hallway – sometimes the walk to the mailbox can be an ordeal.
