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cromag · 01-31-2015, 04:42 PM

The Greasemonkey script for Firefox still works -- I just tested it -- but only for the most recent issues, since B&N no longer allows you to scroll through back issues.

Also, if you have an Android device with the Nook app it's very easy to copy the files off to a PC. My own choice is to navigate to to the file and use Dropbox, but a wired connection to a PC works fine, too.

Unless someone has more experience with Google Play Newstand for magazines, I'd avoid them like the plague. I recently bought issues of Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazines, and they appeared to be crippled so they can only be read with Google's App (which I don't like) or online but only with the Chrome (or Chromium) browser. I (eventually) found where the files are located, but they appear to be jpegs of the individual pages with cryptic names. I may be able to assemble PDF's of them, eventually. If anyone else has more experience and success with these files, I'd love to hear about it! (NOTE: They're DRM-free, at the publisher's request, so I don't think it would run afoul of any forum rules.)

01-31-2015, 04:42 PM	#40
cromag Surfin the alpha waves ~~ Posts: 24,303 Karma: 459220161 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: New Jersey Device: Jetbook Lite & Mini, Nook STR, Kobo, Hanvon N516, Kindle 2, Androids	The Greasemonkey script for Firefox still works -- I just tested it -- but only for the most recent issues, since B&N no longer allows you to scroll through back issues. Also, if you have an Android device with the Nook app it's very easy to copy the files off to a PC. My own choice is to navigate to to the file and use Dropbox, but a wired connection to a PC works fine, too. Unless someone has more experience with Google Play Newstand for magazines, I'd avoid them like the plague. I recently bought issues of Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazines, and they appeared to be crippled so they can only be read with Google's App (which I don't like) or online but only with the Chrome (or Chromium) browser. I (eventually) found where the files are located, but they appear to be jpegs of the individual pages with cryptic names. I may be able to assemble PDF's of them, eventually. If anyone else has more experience and success with these files, I'd love to hear about it! (NOTE: They're DRM-free, at the publisher's request, so I don't think it would run afoul of any forum rules.) Last edited by cromag; 01-31-2015 at 04:49 PM. Reason: Apparently I cannot spell DRM in one try.