The Irish Times (Kindle Edition)
May 31st, 2009 by admin
Product Description
The Irish Times has a reputation for being a liberal voice that does not shy away from controversial political topics on the national and global stage, assigning correspondents both locally and in cities from Moscow to Beijing to Washington. The paper also includes the traditional sports, business, technology and classifieds sections, and boasts high-profile guest columnists such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
The Kindle Edition of The Irish Times contains articles found in the print edition, but will not include all images, tables and stock quotes. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirelessly to your Kindle so you can read them each morning.
Posted in Newspaper Subscription
June 1st, 2009 at 3:01 am
After enjoying reading the NY Times so much on my Kindle, I decided to add a second newspaper subscription. I tried sample issues of three other U.S. papers. They didn’t add much to what I got reading my local papers (the old fashioned way) and the NY Times on the Kindle. My high school French and German aren’t good enough to try those three papers, so I gave the Irish Times a try. It’s an excellent value for the low price and a good European compliment to the U.S. papers I read. Lots of stories, many you’ll never see in a U.S. paper. Coverage of U.S. and world news is very good and the local Irish stories are interesting. I’m more than half way through the trial subscription and will be continuing it. One issue had a few small articles in Gaelic at the end that I couldn’t read. I don’t know how often they do that. I’m in Ohio. I turn my Kindle wireless on a little before 6 a.m. every morning. New issues for both papers have been there, at that time, every day so far. Total download time for both is under a minute.
June 1st, 2009 at 3:18 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
irish times on kindle
ok I am Irish. And yes I travel a lot. Would dearly wish that we over here – outside U.S. – could avail of Kindle and this service. Convenience, Price etc.
June 1st, 2009 at 4:38 am
Like others who have reviewed the Irish Times, I got the paper because I wanted to see the world out of the US in non US terms. In English.
I find myself fascinated by life in Ireland and the European stories that never make it into print here. Did you know that Switzerland thinks it’s being overrun with German immigrants? Neither did I.
The only thing I miss is having some pictures. They were talking about a house that sold for over a million euros, and without a picture, I couldn’t put it into an American context, so I don’t know if it was a lot or a little. (they thought it was a lot, but I live in California where even with this mortgage meltdown, a small house goes for easily half a mill.)
I wish the presidential candidates would all read the stories about their health care. It seems really bad.
So, if you want a foreign paper in Englis, I think you’ll like this.
June 1st, 2009 at 11:39 am
OK, I confess, I’m one of those Americans who has a secret wish to move to Ireland. I’ve never even had a chance to visit there yet (a planned trip back in 1996 was never completed when I found out I was pregnant the week before I meant to get plane tickets). Needless to say, an infant/young child wasn’t an ideal traveling companion (neither is the younger sister who was born three years later) so I’m still waiting to viist.
But in the meantime, I’ve subscribed to the Irish Times, and it’s just so interesting to read about the daily activities there, get the perspective on the U.S. news, that sort of thing. I tired a couple of the big city American papers, and I just enjoy this one a lot more.