[Coco] Proposal Musing: A retro newsletter “experience”...

[Bill Loguidice]

I get that the PDFs are already there, but I was thinking more in line with
your idea of there being a type of compilation by month that's indexed.
That's a solid idea, albeit one with a not insignificant amount of work
attached. I just don't know how much demand there is for paper anymore,
although that could be me projecting my own feelings. I know I'm pretty
much all-in on digital these days. As part of my collection purge, I also
got rid of almost all of my paper books and magazines.

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On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Dec 28, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I like the idea in principle, but moving that much paper around sounds
> like
> > an expensive nightmare. I also think after several months those on the
> > receiving end would start to regret having that many stacks of paper to
> > store (and as someone who is in the process of liquidating most of my
> > physical collection, I know I'm not keen on more physical items). I
> think a
> > much more practical, more 21st century concept, would be to keep the core
> > idea, but instead do it as monthly PDF compilations. These could still be
> > (digital) archive worthy, and, if someone were so moved, they could print
> > it out on their own. While you miss out on the relative nostalgia of it
> > being run off on a photocopier (or even lower tech) and mailed out,
> almost
> > everything else about the idea would be intact.
>
> Well, the PDFs are already there :) But it’s just not the same as when a
> newsletter used to arrive (hmmm, I guess this is the same “real hardware”
> versus “emulator” concept but for printed stuff).
>
> I used to always read the Glenside newsletter when it was paper, but now
> that I have to go download it, it always seems to get forgotten.
>
>                 — A
>