Reader offers personal feedback to our iPad edition

After some correspondence with a reader of The Oklahoman’s new iPad edition, he offered this feedback.

I thought I would share with the world.

I do like the app.  The structure is organized and easy to use.  I think I’ll like having the media links close at hand as I use it more.  The only downside I have found so far is that it doesn’t allow me to use the “pinch” feature of the IPad.  I realize I can increase the size of the font so it won’t be a deal killer.  For instance when I read my subscription to the Journal Record on my IPad I can make the words and pictures as large as I like.  It is a little harder to navigate.

Although $5 a month is less than a lunch, I do bristle a little bit about adding $60 a year to the cost of my subscription when I can read the digital edition on my laptop for free.  I realize it may be a necessary evil.

I think print and digital media have their place in the consumer’s news gathering experience.  I find the digital version a faster and more convenient way to get up to speed on issues I’m interested in.  The experience of handling a newspaper is a hard habit to break and I find myself reading articles I might have passed up in the digital version just because of physically coming upon them when thumbing through the pages.

Overall I commend you and the Oklahoman for being out front in the digital news revolution.  I thought you’d like to know.