What The Papers Say

[felneymike]

Found this on the BBC website, but didn't think it was worth a new thread:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20462098

[stevezodiac]

Picked up tomorrow's free Sport magazine tonight at Cannon Street - there was this piece about e-editions of Roy of the Rovers. I haven't bought an e-reader yet - thinking of getting the kindle fire (not the HD version) but may get the Kobo. Any recommendations? Being middle aged i'm fed up with squinting at an old paperback on the tube so an e-reader with its larger font size capability would be a boon - do any have removable storage mini sd cards?

[felneymike]

An article about The Phoenix from The Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/cult ... -dead.html

Pleasantly surprised to see it wasn't saying "Comics aren't dead because loads of people went to watch a film based on an American comic!" like I was expecting.

[barrys]

If you are considering reading comics digitally I recommend a tablet . I bought a Samsung Galaxy TAB 2 which is great for reading digital comics. The screen is bigger than most i-pads and you can "pinch" the screen to enlarge parts of the page to admire the artwork in more detail. Haven't looked into storage cards but there is a slot for one. You can download alpps like comic reader for free.

[stevezodiac]

From Tuesday's Metro. It is on their website but I have never learnt how to attach links

[Digifiend]

Here's the link: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/newsfocus/9 ... rivate-eye

[felneymike]

Lol, "one of the first" annuals came out in 1939 did it? Utterly clueless.

Still, if only those 100,000 people who buy a Beano product once a year could be persuaded to maybe buy one a week...

[Digifiend]

^A third of them already do. I wonder how many copies the Dandy Annual sells?

[Peter Gray]

its a shame the Dennis the Menace and Bash street kid annuals have gone..also Buster..whoopee...Whizzer and chips...Beezer...
if the Beano annual sells very well ehy don't others?

[colcool007]

I haven't bought an e-reader yet - thinking of getting the kindle fire (not the HD version) but may get the Kobo. Any recommendations? Being middle aged i'm fed up with squinting at an old paperback on the tube so an e-reader with its larger font size capability would be a boon - do any have removable storage mini sd cards?...

Steve, I have a Kindle 3G and got it last year. It's brilliant for what I want. A mini-library of all my paperbacks in something I can put inside a jacket pocket. I would love to get the Kindle Fire as it is so shiny! But I have the Kindle 3G and currently have 143 books on it. It's got no slots for SD card, but with 2Gb of memory, there's no real need for it. I have it so that I always have something to read and you can pick up a wide range of freebies for it.

[stevezodiac]

I think i'll get the kindle fire but not the Hd version as i figure it will have a shiny screen not suitable for book reading.

Wow just hearing about Stuart Hall on the radio - not him surely? (what the radio says sub section)

[Tin Can Tommy]

Not exactly newspapers but the BBC website has a picture of the Bash Street Kids on the frontpage. There is a news piece about them changing a name of a street in Dundee to Bash Street.

[Digifiend]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-t ... l-20640217

Old news, was reported in The Scotsman a month ago.
http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5237

[stevezodiac]

From Wednesday's Metro:

[Niblet]

Bring back Knightmare!