After its first year in operation, the Canberra Times ipad app has racked up more than 40,000 downloads.

Like most of her friends, Ms Liu hunts for news electronically, and has changed the habit of a lifetime from trudging to the front lawn for her newspaper each morning to rolling over in bed to grab her ipad.

“The only thing I miss with not getting an actual newspaper is the magazines and lift-outs such as In the City magazine,” she said.

“I still buy it when I know there is something in there I want to read and look at closely.”

And while newspapers may no longer be coming into her home, she pledges never to give up her collection of British Vogues, which are cherished as much for their glossy cover and pages as the information inside.

Ms Liu has forged a strong following for her fashion savvy blog, Closet Voyage, with its whimsical photographs of must-have items taken all around Canberra. She is obsessed with the international runway scene and could not survive a day without Instagram.

But her “day” job, as a lawyer with the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Commission requires her to stay in touch with local and national news and scour, not surprisingly, the sports pages.

“It is definitely more natural for me to use my ipad for news now, and I think of how much actual paper the newspaper required, which I can now avoid having to use or recycle.”

“I've only had my ipad for three months, but everyone I know has a tablet now. We read in a completely different way to a couple of years ago.”