CSR, know exactly what you mean about flipping the pages being awkward in some electronic formats. We didn't get our newspaper delivered a couple of days and I do subscribe to the on-line service of the Boston Globe. The way it's set up is entirely frustrating; you end up reading the first part of each story and then have to either search around for the continuation, as it's not on the next page, or wait until you have gone through all of the pages to get to the next part.
I know this doesn't apply if you have a subscription to the NY Times on a I Pad, as you can flip through those pages as in a print copy. But the graphics aspect of studying science would also make me think twice about doing it electronically. Right now I am taking neuroscience and I would not want to be looking at those diagrams on a little screen.