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The e-newspaper has arrived – and it’s alive and kicking in the south ofEngland.

You can now have your weekly news e-mailed to your in-box instead of posted through your letterbox.

The team at the Hampshire Chronicle has been pioneering the idea of e-newspapers and it is now a reality.

Editor Alan Cleaver said the Chronicle has been e-mailed to readers for the last couple of weeks.

He said: “The Hampshire Chronicle’s e-version is e-mailed to a select group of people each week who like nothing more than to sit in front of their computer to read the paper or might perhaps prefer to download it onto their pocket pc and read the paper while on the train.

“The trial period of the e-paper is likely to identify faults and problems so other newspapers can learn from the Chronicle’s mistakes – or should that be e-mistakes?

“The big problem was always that you couldn’t read huge amounts of text on screen – it was just too painful on the eyes.”

But Microsoft has overcome that problem some free bit of software that makes reading entire books easy. And with the software pre-loaded onto computers and pocket PCs, it is creating a new market for newspaper publishers.

Alan said: “The next trick was to convert newspaper pages, usually generated on Quark Express into an e-paper.

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