How to read online?
My current suggestion is a Chromebook.
How to read online is still evolving forty years after my first project. Then it was the "Story Board" which allowed dial-in modem users to read a story and add another chapter. Unfortuately the floppy disk with all those stories was lost. Most ended with an atomic bomb being dropped though new stories always emerged. The first lesson learned was that people still read online even though the popular opinion was that nobody reads online.
Second lesson was that reading online is different than a book. And that is different than a magazine. Each medium allows different stories to be told. Newsletters and "horseless newsletters" allow different stories to be told as well. These stories my resemble blogs, yet some are unique to newsletters. Part of what makes newsletters an exciting field.
The purpose of Reading.email is to get more people to read more newsletters more often. With over 500 newsletter titles in Finding.email and more added every week, there is plenty to read. This is goal of the upcoming new interface and new version of Reading.email.
After using two different Chromebooks for the past six months, I now read more newsletters more often on my Chromebook flipped into a tablet. I use it when "reading the morning newspaper". I use it at other reading times when I might have read a book. It is a much different pace or mind frame that using Gmail. I enjoy it and hope to enjoy it more with the new version.
I'm not promoting a particular Chrombook, though one I use is the Lenovo Chromebook Duet which I picked up for $250. I'm eying the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 which is more. The "3 in 1" nature of these Chromebooks turn them into ideal reading tablets.
These devices are a "target" for the new version of Reading.email. I'll do screenshots in the future.
This Week's Promoted List
About Art is by nature an eclectic list of newsletters. "ArtDaily Newsletter" is The First Art Newspaper on the Net and provides a great mix everyday. Also daily is "Colossal" with 10 years of Art and Culture which shows art you can buy and learn. "Hyperallergic" features art journalism, a What's Happening art news as well as links to their articles like "We Should Think Differently About the Preservation of Racist Monuments". The Guardian "Art Weekly" has a weekly Exhibition, Image (Photo), and Masterpiece. For me, less reading and more contemplation.
This Week's Promoted Newsletters
What To Read If covers a different genre of books like "You Want a Propulsive Page Turner". They read books like I read newsletters, so there are several books in each issue with recommendations welcomed. So are comments. If you love books, it is worth some time every week.
Further is part newsletter and part adventures of Brian Clark. Current topics are personal enterprise and unretirement. After reading his "Seven Resources for Living Large" I'm very curious to see how his unretirement concepts can apply to retired life as well. I'm going to take my tablet our on my deck and read the eight back issues in my reading time.
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