Having the paper on the PC means you can't just hand someone the article you were reading while you go read something else. One person can't read the comics, say, while another reads the opinion section. Awkward.
Having the paper in print-image format means you can't say 'show me this whole article', rather than having to scroll to a new page to continue reading. Dumb. I bet that's just because that's the way the paper looks now, so that's what people are USED to, so that's the way it OUGHT to look. Plus also this way, you have to turn the page...and look, there are ADS there! Ads people PAID us for!
The Zoom function on the PressReader software goes from barely readable to INCREDIBLY BLOWN RIGHT THE HELL UP, very quickly. Awkward. Implies that somewhere a default got set. Where? Who knows....
You can't say 'turn off all the thumbnails and just show me them when I do THIS'. Awkward.
Can you say 'show me all articles with these words in them'? Save articles for later rereading? Dunno. And the 'Blog This' function seems to assume you're using Internet Exploder.
It seems to get confused on occasion when trying to paint a new page, overlaying one with part of another, and sometimes completely jumping to a different section.
Being able to download the paper is nice, though. So that's something. And the ability to draw an outline around something and enlarge it is actually pretty cool.
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