What I find amusing about the iTouch (and I assume the iPhone as well) is the sheer number of utterly useless applications for it - I mean, who needs a virtual pint of beer? And, more to the point, why do they insist on verifying that you are of legal drinking age before letting you have it? After all, it can only get you virtually drunk. (Having said that, it does just ask if you’re of age, it then takes it on trust. And on that ramble, how come on all these sites, when they ask you to verify your year of birth, you’re given a drop down with years fron 1900 - 2008. I mean honestly! But I digress)

I find myself suffering from i-Envy. I want one, and I insist it’s just to use as an ereader. But no-one, not even me, really believes that.

Ah well.

Keep up the good work.
Regards,
SAJI

I to wouldn’t be paying for online magazine subscriptions. Or even for fiction novels. Reading fiction is good way of relaxing and I would like to read the plot the author builds up by the pool or sipping cola in a relaxing arm chair. Never in front of my laptop!!

My taste in magazine tends towards the … esoteric. Interestingly, both New Scientist and Scientific American have websites which both reprint the magazine articles and offer additional, web only content. For New Scientist print magazine subscribers, this is free. Scientific American, on the other hand, charges even print subscribers for some of its content.

I also often read science fiction genre magazines. You could argue that much of the content (reviews of show writers, say, or retrospectives on films or books from times past…reviews of shows, movies, graphic novels etc) is available online. However, it is nice to have a magazine in your sticky little fingers, and the content available where ever you happen to be (not to mention the images).

So, in a nutshell, I agree. Gasp.