<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Noble Librarian!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Greetings from Solveig!</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It seems to me that neither of these reports really does away with the semi-scholarly nature of TI full-length articles.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>They focus more on new features.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Two of the most prestigious journals in the sciences, Science and Nature, both have extensive news, event reports, and occasional humor sections, but that does not in any diminish the prestige of the journals.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Also, I think that it's necessary to provide a less focused venue like TI for briefer articles.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Compleat Anachronist issues are always focused on a single topic, and as often as not, are single long essays or articles rather than collections of smaller articles.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>As such, the prospect of publishing in CA is perhaps more daunting than publishing in TI.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Not all professional monthlies are still worth getting. For example, I dearly l wish that I could drop my subscription to</DIV><DIV>Communications of the ACM. Each issue is trashier than the one it follows. The magazine stopped being worth while</DIV><DIV>when they abandoned black covers decades ago.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As for Science and Nature. Those are unfair comparisons as the page count for those is much larger than the page count</DIV><DIV>for TI and one reliably finds scholarly articles in the pages of both Nature and Science. They are premiere publications </DIV><DIV>after all.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Your Humble Servant</DIV><DIV>Solveig Throndardottir</DIV><DIV>Amateur Scholar</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>