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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I presume this means you must save them one page at a time?
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Yeah, I'm sure I could script around that but since I read them one page at a time in the browser it's not enough of a hassle to be worth fixing.
The magazines I really care about are both toe in the water mode - if they sell a decent number of subscriptions this way they will start looking at what people actually want from the electronic edition. Peter Eland (editor/owner of VeloVision) assures me that he will be releasing the back catalogue in accessible format when he can (older editions were often hacked together for printing so there is no "one file" master that he can publish from), probably as complete jpegs with the text also included as text. I expect most of those magazines to add a "buy all our back issues on CD/as a zip file" at some point.
The e-mag that does annoy me is ReNew, the
www.ata.org.au magazine that is currently available as an annual CD of pdfs or monthly paper , but not as monthly pdf.
edit: I think is marks me as an early adopter - willing to pay for things that kinda work, but to me at least are better than the alternative. Sure, the average punter would not put up with the sort of nonsense that I do, and would definitely not be having email conversations with the source of the material, but unless we go through this stuff we won't get to a decent end point. I want "eVelovision" to succeed so that I can later buy New Scientist the same way (in a way that suits me, in other words). The more I help, the more influence I have on VV, and hopefully the more it therefore succeeds and gets copied by bigger magazines.