Thread: Zinio Reading Device?
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Old 09-30-2009, 12:05 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by greg4168 View Post
Hi -

I'm a fairly new subscriber to Zinio for reading magazines. From what I can tell that's the only options for magazines like PC and Sound & Vision, so that's why I went with Zinio.

What I haven't been able to find is a mobile reading device that can handle the Zinio format. Short of getting a Windows Tablet PC, am I out of luck for an actual reading device?

Thanks in advance!
I think I've read somewhere, ZINIO basically would be some kind of protected PDF.
As far as I know, its DRM hasn't been circumvented yet.
So you either have to use a PC or Mac or you have to take snapshots.
Taking snapshots and for example creating PDFs of it can be automated: http://www.copistar.com/
You could OCR the result, but the magazines in Zinio should be workable without, as they're graphic intensive.
The PDFs will be huge though (>50 MB).
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