Susan Cuff: We subscribe to Time, but I occasionally pick up a copy of Newsweek if there’s a story that interests me. What distresses me is the demise of yet another print publication. I understand and embrace 
the shift to digital; I read a lot of publications online. But, at heart, I’m a lover of the printed page, the one I can hold in my hands, fold the corners, smell the ink and smack a spider with. I love newspapers, magazines, harcover books, paperbacks, journals and manuscripts. I relish the feel and smell of paper. I have a couple of boxes of magazines stored in the basement, editions that chronicled a momentous or historic occasion. I’m unapologetically old school when it comes to the printed word.
Question: Do you still relish the smell of paper when it comes to books, journals and manuscripts?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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