DON'T GO CHANGING: The Hartford Courant recently reduced the size of its TV book, sparking howls of outrage from readers. The change was made for financial reasons:

The TV book is a reader service, but advertisers don't seem very interested in it. Deleting 16 pages from TV Week is expected to save the newspaper at least a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

I'm still baffled by the reliance of so many people on the TV book. If you've got cable, you've certainly got the TV Guide Channel. If you've got digital cable, you've certainly got that Guide button on your remote control. Learn how to use them, people.

But seriously, few things generate as much reader mail as monkeying with the TV book or the comics page. Yank Apartment 3-G and you'll get more angry letters than if you'd published an editorial in favor of child molestation.