From TechMan of the
Pittsburgh Post - Gazette: a witty list of requirements for electronic newspaper to capture the market completely:
- It is cheap enough that you can leave it on the bus for someone else to read. And cheap enough that you don't worry about losing it.
- You can hold if over your head in a rainstorm and then dry it out and read it again.
- You can roll it up and swat the dog gently. Or swat a fly not so gently.
- Your wife can pull out the sports section and give it to you.
- You can crinkle it up and pack your glassware for moving. Or use it to train your puppy.
- You can start a fire in your fireplace with it.
- You can write on it.
- You can cut out the recipes and put them in the pages of Joy of Cooking.
- You can roll Silly Putty on it and pick up the comics.
- You can fold it in quarters to do the crossword puzzle.
- You can make a hat out of it.
- You can cut out a Dilbert comic strip and hang it in your cubicle.