Do you prefer paper or electronic newsletters?

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I’m involved with various different organisations and support a range of charities, and quite rightly they all want to keep their members and supporters updated with what they are doing. But this can get a bit overwhelming as a stream of newsletters and magazines is constantly arriving. In the ‘old days’ this mass of paper would accumulate around the house and most of the time I would put the various magazines in the bathroom where I would try to read one or two articles per day and would eventually get through them. And then I would often pass them on to someone else or use the pictures for some craft project. But now many organisations have switched to electronic newsletters instead, saying that it saves paper and energy so is a more environmentally friendly option. It also gives the option to provide links to extra information, videos and other things that couldn’t be included in a paper magazine. The problem for me is that when I’m at my desk I’m generally there to do some work or to look something up (or sometimes to pop on here), not generally to read. And I’m not going to take my laptop into the toilet with me. So the electronic newsletters keep coming and I keep not reading them. But I feel that I ought to read them and so I can’t just delete them. And when I have a magazine or newsletter from at least eleven different organisations arriving every month, that’s quite a lot of virtual articles I’m not getting around to reading. But presumably just keeping them all there in my email inbox must be using computer memory, and therefore energy, too? Aaargh! What to do?? The picture has nothing to do with the post, I just needed some calming flowers