The Sunday paper with its magazine and the crossword puzzle were a weekly ritual in my childhood. I got the newspaper delivered to my apartments as an adult, for literally decades. Around the time of the pandemic, I started just getting the Sunday newspaper delivered, the Washington Post. They killed their magazine with the crossword puzzle, and somehow over the past year or two, I realized my Sunday paper reading ritual was kind of fading out. Too many of the print stories had already appeared and been read online. Ones I wanted to comment on in the digital edition either couldn't be found, or were already so old that comments had been closed.

"Reading" the online edition provides no sense of time. You see the same stories repeated every day, sometimes in 3 different areas of the home page. The experience of an online newspaper just isn't the same as a physical paper which captured a moment in time.