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Newspaper reading has been the biggest disappointment for me with the Iliad. I read 4 or five papers (american and british) plus a smattering of Spanish or Arabic papers in the mornings on my laptop. When I bought the Iliad, I thought it was going to get me off the computer; Irex was going to make deals with the big dailies so we could subscribe through IDS. What a disappointment.
More recently I've tried various options like feedbooks, which will supposedly allow you to download papers from the internet bypassing IDS. But the thing is, they don't really work. Clunky interfaces, unreliable downloading, etc. So basically I am moored to my laptop for my newsreading.
What I would read if I could on my Iliad: NYTimes, WashPost, SFChron, Independent, Guardian, Universal(Mex), Reforma(Mex) LaVanguardia(Sp), Dustur(Eg), MasryAlYoum(Eg)(I live in Egypt). And I would pay, really. And I'd pay for magazine subscriptions too.
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