"woodchucker" wrote

Here's my take on digital. Your subscription is only good for the year
you are in., if you want to look up something 2 years after dropping the
subscription, you can't. If you have paper you probably saved it.

Some of these do allow it, most don't.

Many require awful reader software.

Yep, most digital subscriptions of magazines are a complete waste of digital
time/space.

I remember years ago, I got a subscription to a magazine I really liked.
They sent me three issues and then announced that the paper version is now
dead. The digital version was impossible to read. It was tiny and you had
to jump through several hoops just to turn the miniature pages.

At work recently, I was awarded a paid subscription to an expensive
magazine. It was something that would have limited utility, but I would
look at it if it was a freebie. Well, it turns out it is for the digital
version. They sent me the sign in information yesterday. Again, tiny
pages. And by the time you blow it up enough to see it, you are looking at
a very small portion of the page. I would have to buy a monitor of $1500 or
more to see this thing. And that assumes I have space on my desk top to
house a monster monitor.

A simple newsletter with a couple good articles each month is worth far more
than miniaturized magazines any day.

grumble, grumble, bitch, bitch