I realize that the various stories that are presented are simply and excuse to provide more space for advertising but they are so very overloaded with superfluous, repetitious, word and story extending information that I am really sick of it. The stories are usually good but SO over stuffed that anymore I just go straight to the end of the story and skip all the stuff in the middle. I would not be surprised if many others are doing the same thing and thereby also avoiding the a lot of the many advertisements that are also stuffed into the story. So the story extending process seems to be defeating your purpose. I suggest that stories that are a little more to the point might be read more (and more ads read more) by people who don't have all day to wade through those terribly verbose stories. Roger DeWeese