Previous generations of the full-size 9.7″ iPad could not be held in a single hand for long periods of extended periodical reading or web browsing.
From the third-floor administrative offices you can gaze down into the main exhibition hall, and farther below, into a periodical reading room.
In the Bush library, the chairs are being used in the periodical reading room, which is more like a den than a library, and will be supervised and well cared for.
I didn't ask for a peek at Warren Buffett's portfolio: in order not to know how much preferred stock he acquired in Goldman Sachs I would have to confine my periodical reading to National Geographic.
The library has several reading areas, including the Marsha Moody Children's Reading Room, a teenager reading area, and a periodical reading area.
At the most basic level, literary citizenship calls for writers to buy books and periodicals, read books and periodicals, and talk about books and periodicals with other people.
Mr. Dejammet dismisses the usual haunts for nappers, including the Delegates Lounge, which can be noisy and full of supplicants, and the ground floor lobby, "a vast linoleumed space between the broken escalators and elevators reserved for the 38th floor, and the way to paradise that leads to the periodicals reading room".
Many other mainstream periodicals now read like parodies of New Left Review, as they attend belatedly to the failings of global capitalism – most egregiously, its failure to fulfil its own promise of general prosperity.
3. Read periodicals you would not typically read — a scientific magazine, for example, if you are more interested in business.
Fifty years ago this week, a 10-page spread in Life magazine, then the nation's most widely read periodical, introduced America to the science of baseball statistics.
