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Originally Posted by jen6060
hi mgmueller. On your regret re your ipad model, that you should have bought higher specs (64gig), - how large are file sizes actually for newspapers and magazines? I did buy an ipad myself on a recent US trip - got 64 gig, not by design, but by default bec all other models were sold out. That ipad, however, is a sort of family toy now that my kids like to play with it.. So i may get one for myself.. I was hesitating over the price of course! So far on our family toy I have bought only one mag, and did a trial download of one newspaper.. I suppose to free up space, you have to do frequent deletes? thanks!
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I haven't checked the size of Zinio magazines on iPad. But on Mac or PC, some easily can have some 100MBs. I guess, on average it's about 30MB per Magazine.
I tend to collect. I don't archive the older issues and reload them on demand. I like to have them all at hands. And then, having for example 3 years of Mac magazine, you easily end up with 10GB and more of data.
Zinio (I've mailed them) told me, they're working on 2 features:
- Being able to batch-download more than 1 book at a time on iPad.
- Being able to move them from iPad to your Mac/PC.
Unfortunately, the Mac/PC magazines aren't compatible to the iPad ones.
In general, I find the iPad version a compromise so far. I miss the PC features annotation/notes. When having >>300 issues, I'd like to see some possibility, to search for specific articles. On PC, I've added notes.
I tend to the idea of using 2 iPads. One for multimedia (movies and magazines are the main memory killers) and the other for the rest.
Even on my 32GB version, I permanently have to delete apps, to be within the 11 desktops limit.
And I permanently (at least every single day, often more than once per day) have to charge my iPad. So I could use 1 with WiFi on and the other with WiFi off. 1 for surfing and watching movies, 1 for reading magazines and newspapers solely.
But like you, I consider the costs. And I consider the weight and size of 2 units when traveling. For now, I solve this issue by always having 2 units with me. On today's business trip (I'm leaving in 1 hour and will be back tomorrow evening, usually my trips only are 2 days) I'll take iPad and Kindle DX Graphite. Before it was iPad and Pocketbook 360. But DX Graphite is my newest gadget, so I'll have to check it out of course...