How the Rich and Poor Spend Money Today—and 30 Years Ago

[Warpy]

6. I guess I'm with the means

However, newspapers are largely useless. I follow the links at Newseum and read as much of the foreign press as time and linguistic ability will allow.

This town is odd in that it still has indy bookstores all over the place, both new and second hand. I've been through periods of real poverty and would splurge when the library came up dry on something or other.

While computers are crowding out the hard copy books in the public library (I chose this house because it's a block away), periodicals can still be found and instead of subscribing, I've gone there to read them during poverty periods, springing for a copy of the Harper's crossword on the Xerox machine.

ETA: I got a Kindle in order to put the weaving trade mags on it and have been surprised that it's comfortable to read even with my crappy eyesight.