Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and people read newspapers on public transport, there were all sorts of (mostly unspoken) etiquette rules around how to do

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and people read newspapers on public transport, there were all sorts of (mostly unspoken) etiquette rules around how to do so. For instance, everyone would silently angle themselves (and their newspapers) so as not to interfere with anyone else's newspapers. As more people joined the bus or train, you'd switch from opening your newspaper up all the way to folding the pages back on themselves - advanced users developed abstruse folding techniques to follow stories that jumped from page to page. When you disembarked was usual, and considered polite, to leave behind on your seat the sections you'd finished. People who were poor, or had been in a rush, or who had not happened to have a quarter in their pocket would descend, and sometimes engage in one-word negotiations over the sections: "Sports?", "Front page". It's a vanished world.