Unsubscribing

[bex77]

Does anyone still get The Boston Globe delivered every day?

I'm trying to talk myself into ending my subscription to home delivery of the "dead trees" version of The Boston Globe, or perhaps switching to Sunday only. Switching would save me $35 a month, and stopping would save $49 per month, and I wouldn't be lugging a huge pile of paper (that I haven't read) to the recycling bin every week. I might keep the Sunday paper for the grocery coupons, which would more than offset the cost of the papers. And I can read anything I want online.

But I do want there to be a local liberal newspaper in some form. And I want to see what gets printed about my theater projects about 4 times a year...and I like the idea of knowing what was on "the front page." But I am almost to the point where it is not worth nearly $50 a month for that.

Did you stop long ago? Should I drop it?

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

We haven't had it in years, though now and then I buy it at a news stand.

I would say try going with Sunday only, and see how you like it.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I haven't live in a household that took a paper since I lived at Cognito. The only time I miss it is when I need newspaper for some project.

[dpolicar]

I haven't done the newspaper thing in a long, long time.

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

I sometimes feel like I'm the last person of my generation who still gets a paper. I like to read the funnies with my breakfast, but increasingly the rest of the paper goes unread. I've been thinking about dropping it, but the last time I looked, the online version (and even the electronic edition, which is slightly different) didn't have the funnies. I gather the latest update may have done something about that, so I'll have to try it again.

[bex77]

Well...if I unsubscribe, it sounds like you will be the last one...

As for comics options online, looks like the customizable home pages likes Yahoo or iGoogle have a comics component where you can set up your own line-up, or click around on something like http://news.yahoo.com/comics

There is also a new thing called GlobeReader where you download some software and you can view the actual layout of the paper version online, including comics. There's a demo video at http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/reader/ It only costs about 13 cents/day if you get the paper version already, or about $20/month if you don't. I'm not clear on how the info differs from the web version, other than you download it, so you don't have to be online, and it looks like the newspaper for folks who prefer that.

I'll be interested to see which one of us ends of being "the last person!"

[ron_newman]

They used to offer daily GlobeReader for free with a Sunday-only dead-tree subscription, but they don't anymore. If this is the route you decide to go, please let us know what it costs.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I have been Sunday-only for, oh, 13 years at least. :-} Maybe longer. Though I think there was a short period or two in there where I might have dropped it.

I'm thinking about dropping it again, however, at the moment. Many weeks I literally read *nothing* but the comics, and I almost never get beyond the Globe Magazine and the Parade. Living with J, it was worth having just for sharing the Sunday crossword (not to mention the comics), but now I really haven't touched the crossword in weeks... and it happens that I have many MANY back issues of just the crosswords stored up, enough to keep me going for a year even if I pick it up again regularly. So that's me.

(Besides, they've started sending along a Special Bonus Dead-Tree Advertising Supplement on *Saturdays*, which is worse than useless and really a point in favor of cancelling altogether as far as I'm concerned.)