Staples, Staples Everywhere

Dear Chronicle,
    After reading Ram Hinojosa’s letter [“Postmarks,” Feb. 24] lamenting the Chronicle’s use of staples, I feel obligated to apologize to him and to generations of readers for my earlier letter [“Postmarks,” Jan. 13] applauding the staples and encouraging their continued use. I thought others besides me had experienced the problem of pages falling out of unstapled issues, but now I infer from Mr. Hinojosa’s letter that I must be the only reader who has had this problem.
    Mr. Hinojosa goes on to tell us that with the staples, he can no longer neatly fold the paper in half to read all the text of the articles. (I confess that, in my decades of reading the Chronicle, I have never read all the text of an issue. I congratulate Mr. Hinojosa on his thoroughness.)
    One thing confuses me, though. I was easily able to fold my stapled issue in half. Oh well, this isn’t the first time I’ve thought something was simple and it turned out to be really complicated.