Online versions of magazines?

[TheSilverBuick]

My Car Craft Subscription was convieniently ending this month, and rather than deal with their subscription department to change addresses to my new house I subscribed again using the new house address and this interesting box was next to my order. Has anyone been getting a digital version of a published magazine? Any thoughts? It was extra so I didn't option for it, and I personally like paper copies, but do wonder what it's like? PDF? Interactive website/html based?



3 years for $28 and a free CC hat. I recommend more people sign up and hope the magazine gets enough attention to start fattening up

[SuperBuickGuy]

it's hard to balance a laptop on your lap in the reading room

However, there is a workaround if you have an ipad or kindle

[Monk]

For about a year now I've been getting one of my trade magazines electronically.

Have mixed thoughts about it.

I might try the CC thing.

[Dan Barlow]

No, but if they wanted to start sending me a cd with it on it that would be fine. I want a hard copy of it in some firm.

[Scott Liggett]

I read in the car and while waiting for clients in the terminals at LAX. Since I don't have a tablet yet; I'm sticking with the print version. Can you save digital issues that your car is in?

[catchmeblue70]

I get digital magazines via Zinio, Next Issue, and the regular news stand app on my iPad and I love them. I tended to hoard magazines or articles because you never know when you'll need something but now I can read them, take screenshots of whatever I want to save and then remove them to save space. The best part is I can always go back and redownload them.

[squirrel]

I was thumbing thru some 50 and 60 year old Hot Rod magazines the past few days. There's something about them....I don't think they can be replaced with ones and zeros. But if you read a lot of magazines it would be nice not to have to deal with the piles of paper

[Barry Donovan]

I get digital magazines via Zinio, Next Issue, and the regular news stand app on my iPad and I love them. I tended to hoard magazines or articles because you never know when you'll need something but now I can read them, take screenshots of whatever I want to save and then remove them to save space. The best part is I can always go back and redownload them.

I am thinking the same.
I get like 4 copies of the same parts catalog all the time.

the first digital mag i go to is hot rod. it is pretty cool how they set that up.

[Dan Barlow]

Exactly, I've done car craft and hot rod since 76. And then in 85 I got into 4x4s. that added 2 to 3 more a month. Then I found out there were 2 magazine with only chevys. At some point I felt like a horder. I needed the space. I finally had to admit that I very seldom looked at them after they were a year old.After that I wouldn't remember where what I wanted to see again any ways. I simple got rid of anything DF didn't have a part of. Now when I get done with them I give them away. If it is something really relevant to me' being I'm mostly into 3rd gen F bodys and v8 S-10s they will run the info again in 2 years. There really isn't that much new under the sun.

[Gary 351C]

I will always prefer flipping through a magazine, I feel reading it on-line there's a chance of missing something. The only magazines I've kept over the years are the ones 1985 and older. The new ones sit under the coffee table until the stack falls over, then I'll cut out anything interesting and save it in a folder then toss the rest.