The Green Gazette

My husband recently had surgery and was not able to go to work, which along the way would daily pick up the CR Gazette, along with USA Today, so he could read them as “fresh news” instead of day old, later delivered to our rural community 90 miles away. This has been great for him and he has loved it, I too have found it to be wonderful, even though not a CR native person so have not such a keen interest as he does. I have compared the print to green version, for the sake of the questions I did have on if it would be as good. I can clearly, without distinction say that THIS is much better. Yes, spelling errors are there (same as in print). You can zoom the pictures in vivid beautiful color as the photographer took them, not as gritty as newsprint. If your the person to puzzle, print it yourself and puzzle! :). No more recycle bins, look at past issues without clutter. Jump to sections easily with a tap and swipe. If you hate going from one page to another to another the article view is one seamless read, with font you can change. I hope this answered your questions, downside is that it is it’s own app, but the reader is not coordinated with other local green papers using the same app. So you have to have two of them. Newsmemory (yellow one) for Washington Journal, Mt. Pleasant News, and Fairfield Ledger all of which are owned by same company.

I’ve been using this app for about a year. I find that I read more of the paper than I did when we got the paper version. The online version is easy to use. Print can be expanded as much as the reader wishes. It’s easy to go to the next page or section. My view is that we will have to get to the point where online will the only newspaper option. Printing and delivering the paper is expensive and it’s a source of waste. I have one concern. When I am reading an article and get interrupted before finishing, later if I return to that article the app takes me back to the start of the article rather than to the point where I stopped reading. I greatly appreciate the app and this easy way to read the paper.

It took a little bit of time to get used to a new routine...one that didn’t involve picking up the paper from the front steps in the morning, dividing up the paper by section and swapping for the next one, piling up and recycling. Being able to open up the paper on an iPad from wherever I’m at in the world, it is satisfying to feel connected to home. The only issue that occurs is when there is off-sized pages or sections in the hard copy. It really negatively impacts the experience on the digital version...the sizing, alignment, paging are all messed up. I will say that those issues seem to have been resolved in the past few months. And, to be fair, the off-size layouts are equally annoying in hard copy...but at least you can just toss that section and it doesn’t affect the rest of the paper. I like doing the Suduko and wondered how that would work. I just print it out when I want to do one...very easy.

Categorically speaking I’m not a big fan of reading print papers online in the same format. But I use this app daily to read the print edition of The Gazette. In fact it has replaced the reading of the printed edition for me completely. From that perspective I’m glad this app exists. Reading content is mostly easy and you can click to see a larger version or zoom into the page.

We enjoy being able to read our paper online. We travel quite a lot and it is convenient to get our hometown news anywhere. It is frustrating at times that the paper does not load properly, however for the most part we enjoy the APP