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One thing that the current CACM format irritates me a lot is the
postcard inserts - because the postcard is thicker than other pages, I
cannot conveniently flip through the pages with my thumb. I hate these
postcard inserts so much that for every magazine that I bought, the
first thing I did was to tear out all these inserts.  After that, I
felt MUCH MUCH better at flipping through the pages.

When CACM introduced the first postcard insert, I torn it off, wrote on
it "This is not another byte magazine!", and mail it back to ACM.
These postcard inserts convey a very CHEAP image.

I guess all these changes are to counter the old image of an ivory
tower publication.

One thing good about the new format is the paper. Because of the
reflection from shiny paper, the IEEE Transactions are much more
difficult to read.  While both the old and new CACM format do not use
shiny paper, the new format gives a better feel and it is almost a joy
to highlight it with highlighter.

BTW, anyone knows why a magazine like the IEEE Transactions would publish on
shiny paper?


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