Our subscription to the Star-Advertiser has run out and I’m trying to decide what to do.

We want to read the newspaper, but we find that on most days, we don’t read the whole newspaper, and all that newsprint piles up and becomes a nagging recycling job (although it’s less paper than it used to be when there was more news).

How about digital? There’s reading online, but you don’t really get the newspaper experience. You miss all the clues that come with placement of stories, the way issues are played out visually, etc.

And my initial inclination was that the e-edition, delivered electronically, doesn’t suffice. This is the version that is delivered via email each morning. It shows up as a thumbnail version of the printed newspaper, which allows you to expand and move around on any page or story. It works, but it isn’t convenient. Not ready as a replacement for the print edition.

But yesterday I belatedly “discovered” PressReader, the app for reading the digital edition on an iPad or iPhone.

It’s a whole different and quite natural experience. PressReader may be what makes a digital subscription viable as a reading experience.

The downside is that the appearance of the e-edition is often quite delayed. Yesterday, the email announcing availability of the e-edition wasn’t sent until 9:25 a.m. If you get up early and want to read the newspaper, this is going to be a frustrating experience.

Has anyone out there switched from the print edition to digital-only and the e-edition of the Star-Advertiser? I would love to hear about your experience, especially if PressReader is as satisfying as it initially appears.