The digital era response to doctor's waiting room magazines

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I've just been to my local doctor's to get some blood tests. It's 2 months since I started taking high dose Vit D tablets and the doc wants to make sure she's not inadvertently poisoning me - or something like that. I am always early and the phlebotomist is always late so I get a lot of time to sit in the waiting room and watch people. Sitting near to me was a lady browsing through one of the many not very interesting magazines. Now I'm sure that I'm not the only person who has at some time in their life furtively ripped an article - or a recipe - out of a waiting room magazine. I'll admit I've not done it in a long time because I take my Kindle these days, but I have had the odd rip session. This lady must have found the magazine fascinating because she got her mobile phone out and snapped about 20 shots of different articles. On the one had I thought "Boy that's sad" and on the other I thought "Well at least the next person isn't going to have a mag with half the pages missing".