The Register-Guard e-Edition

For the most part this edition is very good. I can read it anywhere where there is wi-fi. It does have some idiosyncrasies such as smaller pages pop up once in a while, my place is lost if I leave my iPad and it shuts off. Then I have to find where I left off. I like being able to send an article by email or print one and the process is very easy. I also like being able to go to past editions and find articles perhaps dealing with an editorial from a few days ago. I don’t have a pile of paper that lays around to be recycled and I can still print out a coupon if need be. I do miss the feel of the newsprint paper but I handle that by buying the local paper twice a week. The circulation department is very helpful if I have a problem and it’s usually not my problem but an internal one that gets resolved. Once I had my subscription increased by a few days because of technical problems on your side. That was helpful, but, I thought that delivering me a paper copy would have been ideal since it happened during an important event. It may have been when the Ducks won the Rosebowl but I’m not sure.

We just switched to a digital only subscription and now nothing prints right. The NYT crossword puzzle has the right edge cut off and the clue numbers are all in the wrong location. I have enough trouble solving them without adding that! The other puzzles (Jumble, Sudoku, and the easier crossword) all print so blurry I can’t decipher them. I’d been able to print from my IPhone and iPad with the carrier delivered paper subscription (that included the digital) with no issue. Now the only device that prints well is my laptop. I’m very disappointed.

May 2020. I really like reading the e-edition. However, it would be better if it did not have to restart? itself when I go away to read a text message and then come back to the paper. It only takes a few seconds but still. We get the NY Times and the RegisterGuard. I prefer the RG e-edition because it is laid out like a paper newspaper. There is information conveyed by where stories are located. The silly thing is that when we got the “paper paper” I usually only read the front page of each section. Now I look at each page. I wish the e-edition included the advertising sections. It seems crazy that they do not have the Jerry’s and BiMart ads.

The app had nearly flawless execution prior to the Baker family selling to Gannett. Gannett made some changes behind the scenes, and for a time, a virtual comedy of errors ensued. Duplicate pages, sections missing (including the entire Sumday funnies on more than one occasion), late delivery. At one point, we considered going with a different paper’s on line publication, but the price point was not to our liking. In short, it is only the price point that has kept us subscribing. Meanwhile, the errors have diminished, but are still present. Do you know, for example, you double-print the national re-hash of the headlines every day? Today, it’s section C. You’ve been doing this for weeks, if not months! Where is the proofreading these days?

The RG App is pretty good, and I really like just being able to open the app and having my newspaper load without having to sign in. I’d really like the app to be made available for use on my computer too, instead of always having to go through the sign in process when I’m there. Most of the time, I’m reading the RG on my ipad. But if my spouse wants to read the paper, he’s at the computer. So allowing us to both read, without one having to jump several hoops and sign ins to read when at the computer, would really be a good upgrade.