My husband recently had surgery and was not able to go to work, which along the way would daily pick up the CR Gazette, along with USA Today, so he could read them as “fresh news” instead of day old, later delivered to our rural community 90 miles away. This has been great for him and he has loved it, I too have found it to be wonderful, even though not a CR native person so have not such a keen interest as he does. I have compared the print to green version, for the sake of the questions I did have on if it would be as good. I can clearly, without distinction say that THIS is much better. Yes, spelling errors are there (same as in print). You can zoom the pictures in vivid beautiful color as the photographer took them, not as gritty as newsprint. If your the person to puzzle, print it yourself and puzzle! :). No more recycle bins, look at past issues without clutter. Jump to sections easily with a tap and swipe. If you hate going from one page to another to another the article view is one seamless read, with font you can change. I hope this answered your questions, downside is that it is it’s own app, but the reader is not coordinated with other local green papers using the same app. So you have to have two of them. Newsmemory (yellow one) for Washington Journal, Mt. Pleasant News, and Fairfield Ledger all of which are owned by same company.

Came to this option reluctantly but now am liking it more & more! No more soggy deliveries, no more stopping, starting the paper for out of town trips, no more delivery delays due to weather. Love the morning notice that Gazette is ready, easy to maneuver between pages & sections, easy to view articles with enlarged print, love that we can listen to articles being read out loud, love that we have the Gazette available where ever we are when traveling, love that we can view editions we missed in previous editions & look for previous articles we want to view again!👍👍 We had a rocky start with getting this set up to use but was worth persevering! Thank you! Cheryl

It took a little bit of time to get used to a new routine...one that didn’t involve picking up the paper from the front steps in the morning, dividing up the paper by section and swapping for the next one, piling up and recycling. Being able to open up the paper on an iPad from wherever I’m at in the world, it is satisfying to feel connected to home. The only issue that occurs is when there is off-sized pages or sections in the hard copy. It really negatively impacts the experience on the digital version...the sizing, alignment, paging are all messed up. I will say that those issues seem to have been resolved in the past few months. And, to be fair, the off-size layouts are equally annoying in hard copy...but at least you can just toss that section and it doesn’t affect the rest of the paper. I like doing the Suduko and wondered how that would work. I just print it out when I want to do one...very easy.

Your old slogan was “Miss a day and you miss a lot” still applies. I’ve been a reader of the Gazette since I was a child, and I’m now 80 years old. My day is never complete until I have read every article in my daily Gazette. I appreciate all the work your reporters do in covering what going on locally. I rely on the more in depth National stories than the minute and a half you get on the TV coverage. Please keep up the good work!