Reading Newspaper

Online !!!!!!! UGH !!!!!!!! thats exactly what my mother keeps saying almost everyday now. One of the routine activities of my dear father is to read the newspaper everyday. Or should I say read Hindu everyday. Once he retired he had his own schedule. Which was to get up at 4 a.m. and go out to buy milk and then come back and make coffee. With all the trafiic related accidents we heard his dear children prohibited him from going out so early in the morning. What to do!! somtimes grown up children are very annoying (read me) so he did stock milk in the fridge. Then around 5 a.m he would leave to go for his morning walk which always lasted around one hour to one and half hours. So when he came back the newspaper would be lying outside the door and he would bring it in and then get settled in his cane chair to read the paper and have his second cup of coffee. When he travels abroad to visit us its a different story. Here he has to wait till evening and then rush to the computer to read his news in Hindu ONLINE.And there the disagreement and arguements start. Because my mother does not like to read it online and does not consider it "reading" Its still the newspaper isnt' it ? I mean whether you read it online or in hand.. They dont seem to be able to see eye to eye on the newspaper matter only. My mother is never late in reading her Anandaviketan or Kumudham or Shakthi viketan and dont remember what else. She is so very prompt in catchin up with all these magazines. She even has mangayar malar delivered for her by mail. But when it comes to the newspaper they disagree.
From when I was growing up I still remember my grandmother sitting in the verandah and reading malai murusu. That was her paper. She ofcourse did listen to the news in the radio as well. We have always bought the newspaper. I still remember when I was newly married and did not have time to read the paper but we still bought it. How could you not buy the newspaper. So thats just part of the scenery I think. The newspaper lying outside the door or in the driveway?!!
My father visibly gets agitated if he cannot goto the computer and sit down and read the Hindu. He always has a look of satiety after he reads the paper. Its so much a part of his life that its more like having his vitamins. My mother also reads the paper but its her contention that its not the same as holding the paper in her hand and going through it in leisure like she used to.. Do you agree with either one of them??