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I read that article.. on my Kindle. :P
Seriously though, I take issue with a couple of things that the author of that article mentions. After spending several months with the digital version of the NY Times on my K2 I can say honestly it's a much better experience all around, with the only exception being that I can't share the paper with my wife on Sunday mornings.
His issues with navigation seem overblown. For instance, his chief complaint seems to revolve around the formatting of the headlines; "The only way to know if a story merits your attention is to click on it." How about reading the headline to see if the story interests you? Did you ever think to do that?
I certainly don't find myself reading the newspaper like a book as he says, feeling like I need to finish an article because browsing to another one is too much trouble. I would admit that I do find my self reading more of the news though, and that I read it more deeply in the same amount of time. To me, that's an advantage.
His other complaint is about the fact that the newspaper only updates once a day. Once again, I see this as a benefit. The entire online news cycle is far too rushed - it's gone from articles to blog entries to headlines to tweets, for chrissake. If I wanted to read the absolutely latest headlines, I would read them online. But what I use the Kindle for is reading the news, not just what's newest. I read the New York Times for the depth of the articles and the comprehensive reporting. That stands in stark contrast to the kind of zero-attention-span culture that constantly hits refresh on the Huffington Post home page (actually that site refreshes itself - how crazy is that?). I don't want to be constantly updating, and I want to be able to return to the same paper in the afternoon that I was reading in the morning in case I don't get through all the articles I want. Would I absolutely reject a return to the "evening edition" model? No, probably not. But I probably wouldn't read it.
In short I think reading the paper on the Kindle rather than in print is so much better for so many reasons, it easily makes up for the small issues of the Kindle.
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