« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 18:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Jen (I have just realised you posted again) and Gan Yam, thank you for these posts.
The newspaper I wanted to look at today was the old Whitley Bay newspaper, which was ahead of its time, in that the print was large enough to be read easily even way back then. I have never had to zoom in and out for that newspaper using an old machine.
When I am at Newcastle looking at old death notices in the Evening Chronicle, sometimes the print can be very small. However, on an old style reader everything is so easy. You can get much more done on them in half the time. When I have had no choice at libraries such as South Shields (which has all new readers) I have also found these painfully slow. And I can guarantee that if anyone goes to Newcastle local studies that you will never see anyone on their new reader if any of the old ones are available. At least, this is what I see in my experience there.
Today on the new reader to get to a decent size, the page had to be increased to a point where there was only a view of the middle of the page. I do hope I have better luck next time .. I fear it might cost too much to fix the old user friendly reader. It seems to me that this 'progress' in acquiring these new modern machines is not much cop at all. I do hope someone out there can invent something better than these hard to fathom, painfully slow, constant adjustments needed machines. The old machines are much more load and go!
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner