Monday 15 January is also the day of my 64th birthday. I’m waiting, with some trepidation, to see if I love my gift from you as much as I have loved my familiar friend, the Berliner, and its predecessor, all my adult life.
Annie Grist
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
• There will be understandable excitement at Guardian HQ over the change to tabloid. The outsourcing of printing may go unremarked. I hope a way can be found to recognise and thank the many people who have produced the paper at print centres in London and Manchester.
John Dickinson
London
• We view the reduction in size of the Guardian pages with trepidation. Although we’re confident the quality of the journalism will be maintained, the tabloid will not be large enough to span the front of our fireplace to create sufficient draught to ignite the smokeless fuel we use. Even the move to Berliner format was traumatic, with the risk of the smaller pages being sucked up the chimney, leading to a literal and verbal conflagration.
Anne Liddon
Tynemouth
• You may one day shrink to pocket-size, but as long as the Guardian remains a newspaper, I’ll be happy.
Peter Kaan
Exeter
• As a Guardian reader for many decades I am thrilled at the prospect of the new tabloid. I have just one anxiety. In all the fine words about what the new sections of the paper will contain there’s no mention of correspondence columns. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I will find that the smaller format doesn’t mean less space for readers’ letters, the beating heart of the Guardian.
Giles Oakley
London
• Now that you’ve gone over to tabloid, will even short letters be c-
Fr Alec Mitchell
Manchester
• As JFK might have said, “Ich bin kein Berliner”.
Cyril Duff
London
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