Sarah Morgan - Comments

What all are we considering media? I still have a bunch of meatspace books... - Chrimmus Tad

what other media is there? (almost honest question) - Ruben Llibre

@Tad my 5% print is books. - Steve Rubel

Easily 95%. - Liana Lehua

I actually print out FriendFeed pages. I'm the only one? - l0ckergn0me

@Chris Pirillo I have someone read it to me every night. - Steve Rubel

Holy Cow - I wish I could go mostly digital, but until I can buy digital books with the same DRM as meatspace books I'm sticking with dead trees. I should be able to resell, trade and borrow books. As for magazines, if Zinio would just add some more titles I could be 100% digital in that realm. - Chrimmus Tad

90% when at work or home, 70% when traveling - Ontario Emperor

Bordering around 98% for me. - Mike Fruchter

95% - Rich

The only non-digital media I consume now is non-technical books (still prefer reading good hardcover books and magazines (business week, HBR) when I fly. - Deepak Singh

Deepak - BusinessWeek is available via Zinio - I subscribed a while back and I've been loving reading it on my computer. - Chrimmus Tad

books are all that's left for me too. and i dont think they count for 5%. i read half a book or more daily (if you add up all webreading). - Ruben Llibre

@Tad I like the Web version of Zinio. - Steve Rubel

Don't know about a percentage, but the only non-electronic medium for me is books. Everything else is digital. - Zio Bonino

better question might be how often do you consume non electronic media. I do that every day and would really miss the newspaper if I didn't have it at least once a week. I also like pottery and theater, two other media :) But 95% electronic is probably a low estimate. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

I work completely online so I comsume most media electronically, but I spend an hour in the morning with the papers and at least two hours reading per day. Except during the NBA finals. - Ralph Poole from twhirl

I agree, I'd say at least 75% in my case, and most of my print media consumption is due to my work or a few pubs. that still don't have great online content yet. - Cathryn Hrudicka

I like my mp3's, but I love my vinyl. I like sitting in front of my laptop skimming various things from FF, but i love reading a great book at the end of the day.For me, it's not about percentages, it's about the differing emotional impact of the two sides of the equation. - Iain Baker

99.9% - Mark Forman

98% digital. I haven't touched newsprint in a long, long, time. - Thomas Hawk

98% - I only buy my Sunday Times on sundays - Roberto Bonini

magazines are pretty much the only non electronic media i find myself looking at. And usually they come with a dvd so...98% maybe more. - Squid

with the exception of books for weekend reading, it's pretty much 100%. - Michael Gartenberg

In terms of words per week - probably 99%. - Andrew Garrett

I'd probably be at 95% or so. There are a couple of magazine/journal subscriptions I still like to read in print. - J. McConnell

95% or more for me. Books and an occasional magazine, otherwise all electronic. - Don Nunn

95% - The only print items I read are a few magazines and the Sunday newspaper. - Michelle Martinez

Let's see? I read a book at night...but that's it. - Laurent Courtines from twhirl

Probably 90%, I read a bunch of magazines, and constantly have a pen and paper handy, but the amount of magazines I read is dwarfed by the amount of reading I do on the computer (~20gb of e-books, ~50gb of music, granted flac's take up much more space than mp3s); Side note, gotta agree with melmcbride (~10 above me) and say that the newspaper is short, uninformative, and worst of all, old news nowadays (At least in a magazine an article can be expanded on to complete the idea). - Mike Seman

Still a lot of books and magazines but I'd say about 70% - Andrew Smith

95% - Kipp Bodnar

Another vote for 95% electronic -- only books, the Sunday NYT, and a bimonthly issue of Cook's Illustrated. - Nancy Sagar

70/30, if I'm out I still get a paper copy of USA Today, and have time and newsweek coming here. - BCK

80% electronic [20% books]. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Would have to be at least 80% I heard a stat yesterday that digital media is consumed in volume 14 times that of print! - Luke Harvey-Palmer

I'm definitely in the 95%+ range. No question. - Jeff "RESPRES" Turner from Alert Thingy

99% for me. Sunday paper is the last non-electronic media bit. - Kevin C. Tofel

For me, 95% electronic. That would cover internet & computer, TV, radio, etc. The other 5% for me is books, newspapers, and a couple dead-tree magazines I still subscribe to. - Paul Short

about 85% (15% 10min newspaper a day and one magazin left per month, sometimes books, but most of them audiobooks these days) - Wolfgang Luenenbuerger

i'm at about 95 percent too but i'm not sure how proud i am of that fact. - sean808080 from twhirl

Probably about 75% - still read a LOT of books in print (tho' have a kindle) and newspapers & tons of print magazines. Increasingly digital on the magazines since some are just starting to offer them. But books to me will be both digital, but always room for a real in print physical version. I love them. I'd rather fall asleep with a book than a kindle or mp3 player on my lap! - Paul Greenberg

85 percent. I skim the real WSJ and KC star daily, but for anything I truly commit to reading, is through my reader. I do, however, get a chunk of NPR in during the morning commute. - Jarrod Morgenstern

I don't think there's anything to be ashamed about reading some stuff in print. For some material, print can't be beat. - J. McConnell

I'd put it at 85-90%, given the amount of books and mags I try to consume. Curious how the digital breaks down for the 95%ers: TV v Computer v Mobile. - Stephen Winkler

I'd say 75%. But that's because I can't give up the books! - Simon Bisson from twhirl

I'm 80% digital: 65 computer, 10 radio, 10 books, 5 Blackberry/txt, 5 TV, 5 newspaper/magazine. (I'm counting satellite radio as digital.) TV, newspapers and magazines are time-killers, though - not must-do's. - Sarah Morgan

Online: World News: 90%. Local News, 5%, Industry News, 85%. Sitting down with a book or magazine feels like a holiday. Comprehension and absorption are higher with print, however. - Dana Lookadoo

95% Only dead tree stuff is books and the occasional magazine that isn't otherwise online. - Jim Graham

I don't think that I could ever give up print media entirely, unless that is eventually made mandatory by the death of print media itself (knock on wood), so I still consume a vast variety of books, newspapers, and magazines on a daily basis in addition to my consumption of electronic media. I'd say my percentage is around 65%. - Atherton Bartelby

60% - i started to read more dead tree stuff again lately. - Ralph

Gee, friendfeed commenters are more digital than traditional... Chalk me up as not surprised. To contribute to the noise, 95% internet media: free weekly newspapers are way more valuable for most local events than online media. - Bjorn Stromberg

I avoid paper like the plague, but I do read the occasional recommended book. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

about 70-80% - edythe

98% or more, including technical books, technical papers, popular fiction, magazine and newspaper articles, etc. I used to be drowning in paper documents -- now my space is nearly paper free, and I love it. I currently have a few hundred ebooks stored on my Samsung Blackjack, including weighty tomes on linguistics and suspense novels. - Sean McBride

70% - the other 30% would be books - Glenn Dixon

Still read print newspapers and weeklies, paperbacks for the commute, and dusty old books in the smoking room. But I have enough feeds to make that teetering pile small and have to go with 90% ... - Ashton

I too read books on my commute so maybe 20% books, 80% electronic. I very rarely read print magazines or newspapers anymore. I live in Google Reader. - Wm Morris

50% print - 50% online - John

I still read books... but I think I would read them faster if they were an etext - Noah David Simon

About 50%. I will love holding broadsheets like the IHT, Financial Times, Guardian, Weekly Telegraph. Long form copy doesn't lend well on the Web - when I want short and sweet, I go online; otherwise, I read papers and pubs. - Darcy

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