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/^t/Firstly, I would like to discuss newspapers. At our market we can find a great variety of newspapers as well as magazines. Everyday newspapers are usually broadsheets whereas periodicals occuring once a week, once a fortnight, or each month have a form of a tabloid. Former ones inform us about current political affairs, sport achievements and about cultural events both national and international and they are the foundation on which we create and base our opinions. On the other hand, every week or month there are periodicals which are colourful and quite extensive. These supply us with more detailed information, which, I suppose, replace reference books, encyclopedias and dictionaries. We are given further reviews of cultural events, comments on political movements and even parts of popular novels. There are as many sorts of magazines as there are areas of knowledge, so specialistic periodicals are published. Some of them can be offered to everyone but at the same time, there are ones which are bought and read only by professionals. In this situation no special books are needed. People buy enough newspapers and they do not have to use any other kinds of written knowledge.