In his Monclair, New Jersey home, New York Times Business Day columnist David Carr keeps the latest high tech gear out of his living room.

Instead, visitors will find what Carr describes as "a large comfortable chair, a good lamp, and a magazine rack groaning with the fruits of American journalism," not to mention his wife Jill's accordion.

Carr intends to use his living room as a reading room, although he confesses that he rarely has much time to read anymore.  "The bounty is undeniable.  There are nutritious morsels there -- a piece in the Columbia Journalism Review calling for a nonprofit newspaper model, a Fortune article about a high-powered chief executive who regrets his ruthlessness on the way to the top, and a New York Times Magazine article on Hugo Chavez's brand of nationalization," Carr writes in his November 26, 2007 "The Media Equation" column.

Carr goes on to sing the praises of The Week, a magazine digest that he says "riffs through all the content in the known universe and digests it into a form that can be disposed of in 20 minutes."