The reason I read a paper magazine or book is for the time
it gives me — for the space to think, reflect, pause, return, re-read, and so
on until what’s on the page has morphed from an idea to something deeper.
Online, and even on a tablet, is a different experience.
There’s a light in my face. There’s an urgency. It has no closure; there’s
always another click, an eternal, forever, world-without-end-amen stream of
data rushing, flowing, pounding, demanding, agitating.
Paper gets me away from that.
When all voices are equal, I have to listen to all voices. I
can’t afford this mentally, emotionally or physically. When all data is
available, I have to process all data. I’m not big enough.
Paper edits for me.
— John McWade, founder and creative director of Before and
After magazine
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