• brsrklf@jlai.lu
    18·
    4 days ago

    This is related to one of those ridiculous pet peeves of mine. You know, for a couple months I’ve been subscribing to a (decent) newspaper as my main source of serious info. Including the old school medium made of tree, because, why not (I get access to the website format too, of course).

    I don’t understand how it evolved to be made in that form factor, and why it is still being done that way. Like a feaking all-encompassing wallpaper of text held upright 30cm from your face.

    Here I am trying to read it in a sane way by folding it every way until I can get the part I’m trying to read semi comfortably. You know, not like Mr Douchebag in that comic. It’s so uselessly annoying.

    • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
      24·
      4 days ago

      I don’t understand how it evolved to be made in that form factor, and why it is still being done that way.

      Probably for being easier, cheaper and faster to produce in printing press machines. If you made the sheets smaller, you’d end needing to make much more cuts and it would also be harder to hold many smaller sheets together without some sort of binding

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      I don’t understand how it evolved to be made in that form factor, and why it is still being done that way.

      I have semi good news for you. There are several sizes of newspaper, however, some newspapers are only available in certain sizes.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_format#Sizes_and_aspect_ratios

      • Broadsheet 749 mm × 597 mm (29.5 in × 23.5 in) (1.255 aspect ratio)
      • Nordisch 570 mm × 400 mm (22 in × 16 in) (1.425 aspect ratio)
      • Rhenish around 520 mm × 350 mm (20 in × 14 in) (1.486 aspect ratio)
      • Swiss (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) 475 mm × 320 mm (18.7 in × 12.6 in) (1.484 aspect ratio)
      • Berliner 470 mm × 315 mm (18.5 in × 12.4 in) (1.492 aspect ratio)
      • Tabloid 430 mm × 280 mm (17 in × 11 in) (1.536 aspect ratio)
      • Demitab (half tabloid) 200 mm × 270 mm (8 in × 10.5 in) 1.3125 aspect ratio. “Magazine format”, though many magazines are larger. Used by The Economist.

      perhaps your physical newspaper is available in an alternate size?