[ficbot]

I am very tempted to get a subscription to something. It is a smaller format in paper anyway and I like the idea that I can keep the issues instead of recycling like I do with paper. A few questions though, the iPad help screen was not very detailed.

1) Does it let you have control over individual magazine issues? For example I don't want it deciding on its own that enough time has passed and I am done with it and have it delete the issue for me. I want the option to keep the issue forever if I want to.

2) If I do want to keep an issue for reference but want to transfer it to my computer for use/backup instead of reading it on the iPad, is this do-able? If so, in what format will the magazine be and how will I open it up on the computer?

3) ow does it notify you when a new issue is ready? Or are you supposed to keep track of that yourself?

I guess I am just wary of being locked into some sort of DRM scheme here. I am used to buying ebooks and 'liberating' them. If these files are really PDF files (or can be made so) then great, but I am worry about spending hundreds of dollars on something I may be locked out of later.