The experience of reading the NY Times on the iPad is similar to eating at an a la carte restaurant. The news is segregated into separate compartments that begin and end abruptly with visits to the main menu. I would prefer a more continuous experience of reading the entire newspaper at a single sitting with the ability to bookmark the place if I am interrupted. The App also lacks the social aspects (as found on nytimes.com) of being able to publicly comment on an article.
The experience also lacks features that are possible with a real newspaper:
- clipping and saving an article for reference later
- hilighting (or copying and pasting) a small section of an article
- "starring" a particularly well written article
- after the newspaper is delivered to my house, it is "instantly on"; the App however, takes some time to get started and after it does, it starts with the articles from the last time I was reading. One would think that it would be downloading new content while I stare at a white screen with the NY Times logo.
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