Read the paper on it, properly
Sit down with the tablet after breakfast and read the day’s paper at a size that suits your eyes, whether or not the house has a signal.
A newspaper is roughly the size and weight of a tablet, held at roughly the same angle, read in roughly the same chair. Nothing else about the machine fits your life so neatly.
And a paper on a tablet does three things a printed one cannot. The words can be made any size you like. Yesterday and last week are still in there. And it arrives before you are awake, in silence, without anybody coming up the path.
Key points
- Open the day’s edition and read it page by page, as it is printed
- Make the words of an article any size your eyes want, without changing the rest of the tablet
- Turn the page cream instead of white for reading under a lamp
- Have the whole paper fetched overnight, so it opens instantly and works with no signal
What to remember
- The two little letters — a small A beside a large A — are the text size control, and nearly every reading app has them.
- An app with overnight download turns the tablet into a paper you can take anywhere, signal or no signal.
- Overnight downloads happen over your own wireless at home, so they cost nothing extra and use none of a mobile allowance.
Try this
Open your paper — app or website — on your own tablet and find the two letter A’s, one small and one large. Push the size up two notches and read a paragraph. Most people have never touched it and never go back.
Practice: Read the paper on it, properly. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.