Digital Magazines

[DiscoStu]

Does anyone else get digital copies of any magazines? I subscribe to good wood working and get the digital version. It takes forever to download. Probably 2 minutes per page which makes scrolling through it a massive PITA.

I assume it's the pocket mags service but just wanted to check. Its the same on my iphone and ipad regardless of connection.

I don't know why it's not just a PDF as that would be about 100 times quicker.

Just wondered if anyone else had experience the same or better?

 

[custard]

I get Popular Woodworking and Fine Woodworking as digital editions. I generally read them on a desk computer, sometimes on an iPad, never on a phone, they download pretty quickly. The only complaints are that Popular Woodworking uses some kind of magazine intermediary called Zinio which only permits printing one page at a time (frustrating when you want a printed article to take into the workshop), and Fine Woodworking forces overly intrusive advertising into the reading/viewing experience.

I understand the need to guard against piracy (I spent most of my working life in the media business so I'm sympathetic) but personally I think publications should give bona fide subscribers exactly what they want want without limitations or intrusiveness. An Ad Blocker has fixed Fine Woodworking, but I can't find a workaround for Zinio printing.

 

[Halo Jones]

I subscribe to the digital edition of PW and it gets sent straight from PW as a pdf.

I also subscribe to F&C and have to use pocketmags for that. It probably takes about 2 mins to download but once on my tablet I have no trouble whizzing from page to page. Make sure the pocketmags app is up to date as using an old version is the only time I have had trouble.

I like the digital editions as it means LOML doesn't shout at me for leaving piles of magazines everywhere!

 

[harryd]

You could try issuu - https://issuu.com/
Lots of woodworking magazines here, free, as well as a number of quite serious books. Search for 'woodworking'.