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I, like probably many of you, have way more paper copies of woodworking magazines than I can possibly read. My collection goes back to the 1980's, which means 30+ years of Wood, Pop Wood, American Woodworker, etc. Just keeping things in order is a problem.
I'm thinking of switching over to digital copies over the next renewal schedules. I've owned digital copies of magazines before and to be honest, until tablet computers came on the market, it just never seem easy to use them. With iPads and such, it's easy to bring them to the shop and be able to review a plan without having to print things out. I'm curious what the members here think? In addition, I want to "rail a bit" against the rather exorbitant pricing some of the publishers have on the digital copies. I understand the wanting to maintain a profit margin for the effort to produce, but I just don't see why a digital copy cost the same as a paper copy. I mean isn't there a price for paper, printer fees, storage, etc? The model that I like for any of this is Tauton's Fine Woodworking. For $14..95 (I think) a year, you get access to their entire digital database of magazines, articles, blogs, etc. I've used this feature many times and it's just great. I just wish more magazines would follow. Thoughts about this? MJ |
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: I, like probably many of you, have way more paper copies of woodworking magazines than I can possibly read. My collection goes back to the 1980's, which means 30+ years of Wood, Pop Wood, American Woodworker, etc. Just keeping things in order is a problem. I'm thinking of switching over to digital copies over the next renewal schedules. I've owned digital copies of magazines before and to be honest, until tablet computers came on the market, it just never seem easy to use them. With iPads and such, it's easy to bring them to the shop and be able to review a plan without having to print things out. I'm curious what the members here think? In addition, I want to "rail a bit" against the rather exorbitant pricing some of the publishers have on the digital copies. I understand the wanting to maintain a profit margin for the effort to produce, but I just don't see why a digital copy cost the same as a paper copy. I mean isn't there a price for paper, printer fees, storage, etc? The model that I like for any of this is Tauton's Fine Woodworking. For $14.95 (I think) a year, you get access to their entire digital database of magazines, articles, blogs, etc. I've used this feature many times and it's just great. I just wish more magazines would follow. Thoughts about this? MJ I'm not sure I want to invest serious cash in a device to sit on the back of the toilet. I've got a couple different bathrooms in the house, so I'd need one for each room. Print subscriptions are cheaper. (Then there's the whole issue of keeping the batteries charged, being in range of a wireless connection or distributing files to each device, etc.) I've got one magazine subscription that keeps on missing issues. Rather than go digital (I've got access to the digital version and rarely use it), I'm probably going to drop the entire subscription. I might have to get some old magazines to read. (Larry Blanchard, did you ever get rid of those train magazines from like 10 years ago?) On the other side of the coin, printed magazines can't do anything fancy like play a video or sound. They also tend to take up quite a bit of space. Puckdropper -- Make it to fit, don't make it fit. |
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On 02 Jul 2013 03:08:21 GMT, Puckdropper
I'm not sure I want to invest serious cash in a device to sit on the back of the toilet. I've got a couple different bathrooms in the house, so I'd need one for each room. Print subscriptions are cheaper. (Then there's the whole issue of keeping the batteries charged, being in range of a wireless connection or distributing files to each device, etc.) Sorry, but just the fact that you've stated all this suggests that you have little experience with it and/or just not particularly interested in the available technology. Wifi is set up once and should cover most areas of a house. And, on the off chance that it doesn't, you can get a cheap repeater or range extender to increase the range. Most/many people travel with a cell phone or tablet much of the time. The Wifi and your tablet is all you need to have universal access to a computer or cloud directory or website containing PDF's of woodworking articles. While I agree that a magazines are nice to have available while sitting on the throne, there's only so many times you can read the same article without longing for something new. |
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On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:13:13 -0700, MJ wrote:
I, like probably many of you, have way more paper copies of woodworking magazines than I can possibly read. My collection goes back to the 1980's, which means 30+ years of Wood, Pop Wood, American Woodworker, etc. Just keeping things in order is a problem. I'm thinking of switching over to digital copies over the next renewal schedules. One of the model railroad magazines I subscribe to offered a digital version here a while back. I wrote them and pointed out that with a paper copy I could drop my subscription and still have access to all the issues I'd received as a subscriber. I asked if they were going to allow me access to the digital issues I'd subscribed to after I dropped that subscription. They never responded. You might want to ask the same question. -- When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. |
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On 7/2/2013 7:18 AM, woodchucker wrote:
... what I look for mostly is design ideas, and even those don't exist in the WW magazines. YMMV The reader projects section in the back of Fine Woodworking has some good design ideas, even if it's only to keep up on what's in style. As far as furniture design magazines, Fine Woodworking tried that years ago in their "Home Furniture" series. Unfortunately, it failed due to lack of interest. I guess most subscribers like that beginner stuff more than pure design. |
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scritch wrote:
On 7/2/2013 7:18 AM, woodchucker wrote: ... what I look for mostly is design ideas, and even those don't exist in the WW magazines. YMMV The reader projects section in the back of Fine Woodworking has some good design ideas, even if it's only to keep up on what's in style. As far as furniture design magazines, Fine Woodworking tried that years ago in their "Home Furniture" series. Unfortunately, it failed due to lack of interest. I guess most subscribers like that beginner stuff more than pure design. Houzz.com ... I keep their app on both my phone and iPad, turn my clients on to using it, and save everything I see that is interesting in a shareable "idea book". -- www.ewoodshop.com (Mobile) |
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