No more print magazines, what do I do?
First it was PC Magazine that went from print to digital only. Then Newsweek, and now PC World. And numerous smaller publications have done so, like my city's Crime Watch newsletter.
I'm getting old. I LOVE TO READ IN BED! And it's how I fall asleep. I hate reading long articles and books on my computer screen at a desk.
When PC World recently went all-digital, I signed up for the Zinio subscription service and Zinio Reader for reading downloaded magazines offline on my Windows 7 PC. But that royally sucks:
I cannot underline or highlight, I cannot annotate, I cannot copy and paste anything. What worthless crap.
Whereas in a print magazine I underline and annotate. I underline some really key things darker and harder. I put a star or two in the margin for a really key key thing. Sometimes I use different colors. And I do that all FLAT ON MY BACK IN BED. And though with a print magazine I can't copy and paste electronically either, I do type a few sparse notes on some key articles, and clip the article and file chronologically.
I have not explored any e-book readers or tablets. I know with a Kindle, for example, one can underline and annotate, but don't know if I'd be allowed to do that on my PCWorld subscription from Zinio (probably not)
I have similar issues with books too, but let's make that a separate posting.
Anyone else having trouble coping with the modern world?
Thanks for any insights.
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I gave up magazine subscriptions to TIME & Newsweak (typo intended) was because of the rightwing crap that started when the media seemed complicit with the repukes to get Clinton by any means necessary. I had been a long time subscriber and loved both T and N magazines, but the Clinton hatred in the 1990s ended my magazine love affair. I found that I didn't miss them or the clutter they created.
As my eyes, in particular, have aged, I find tablet reading easier because the font can be easily adjusted. Yes, I miss underlining and starring or otherwise annotating but what did I end up doing with all the reading that has been so marked over the years 
It's in a trash heap somewhere!
I guess reading and drinking don't mix either 
records & tapes replaced with CDs ,video tapes replaced with DVDs then all of these replaced with bubble memory and downloads .
The cultural loss of record stores ,book stores and even magazine racks is just being measured now with the jobs lost and the feelings of loneliness at a coffee place where no one speaks .Cigarettes were poisonous garbage but more social than their replacements , I don't miss smoking but sure miss the chance of talking to a stranger somewhere when waiting for something .
We have all failed our society and civilization by being "with it " and modern in a world now run by machines that are beginning to repair and replace themselves while putting humans out of work in jobs that may not have been wonderful but were still jobs .
I read somewhere that it was very frowned upon to read printed words silently when the printing presses started churning out books . We may be becoming silent and lonely ,will DU be replaced with implants ? probably and we won't read ,write or verbalize just
crunch zeros and ones .On the other hand at our place we have subscribed to a few magazines and gotten several library cards recently so maybe a back lash could be started away from computerized social media etc... and back to face to face communication with bad smells ,icky visual cues , body language and a sense of belonging with all it's hard work to maintain a balance .
Naw !
but I hope so anyway .
