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Sunday broadsheets  

Three Sunday broadsheets: The Observer (ie. The Guardian), The Independent on Sunday (ie. The Independent) and The Sunday Times (ie. The… oh you got the idea already?). The price: £3.90. The processed pulp: 306 broadsheet-sized pages in 16 (!) sections, 136 tabloid-sized pages in five sections and 424 magazine-sized pages.

In approximate broadsheet terms that sums up to 374 pages, over 100 pages more than in the three Saturday papers. The combined total of these six titles bought over just two days is over 650 broadsheet pages, or three weeks worth of regional Finnish weekday newspapers. So if you wondered why I’m writing this so late, there’s your explanation.

Also, my back hurts.

12.05.2003 klo 04:58

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