Print and Convergence

Back when Mary was a young girl, she was always busy with working on the farm or school. Since she had to read in school, she didn't have much interest in doing more of it in her free time.
"I wasn't a big reader, much like now," she told me. Her family did have subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, however. The Quincy Hearald Whig was the bigger paper that covered local tri-state news, and then her town had the Golden New Era.
 
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Her dad subscribed to Successful Farms and Farmers' Almanac, and her mother subscribed to Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, and McCall's . The mail carrier would always come and bring them by.  Mary did like to look at Look! and Life magazines. She didn't ask about any magazines that were controversial, she didn't really care.

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As I said before, Mary wasn't much of a reader back then, so there weren't really any restrictions for her there. Now that she has free time from school and the farm, she likes to read biographies, and novels by her favorite authors which include John Grisham, Jodi Picolt, Danielle Steel, Erin Hildebrand, and Paul Evan.

She usually goes to the library for her books nowadays, whereas she would have gotten them from school when she was younger, because there was no library in her hometown even if she had time to read.

Mary had a few things to point out about how print has changed over the years. Firstly, there were nowhere near as many ads as there are today. Secondly, the print is more sophisticated now. There was no color or coupons that came with them, and the paper back then was not glossy like it is in magazines now.

I asked her if she read things online or used a Kindle or Nook-type device to read and she said no. She and I both agree that we like the accomplished feeling of getting to turn the page. She doesn't read things online very much either.

Since we were on the topic of online, I asked her opinion on convergence, or the endangerment of print to the digital online world, and she had a statement to make. "I know it's coming, but I'm still gonna' be sad about it," she said, referring to the day when print is a thing of the past. We both hope, however, that that doesn't happen.