The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: montmil on December 06, 2009, 02:52:26 PM
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In a different post regarding bikes other than BMW, I mentioned I had wanted to purchase an British "bookazine" titled The Scrapbook Series: Triumph. The item was out of print but I was directed to a digital publications site, Zinio. http://www.zinio.com/
Check out this site. It is full of topics and publications that offer digital subscriptions that are less costly than the "hard" newsstand copy or mailed subs.
I have been paying $7.99USD for individual copies of the British The Classic MotorCycyle but believe I will subscribe to the digital issues for less than $30.00USD versus the $96.00USD for twelve issues of the paper version.
Visit the site. You can browse a few pages of any publication at no cost. There are also individual issues available.
As a Luddite-Junior Grade, this digital deal is a big step for me. Gulp. ;D
Monte
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The software that allows you to turn a page is neat touch. We have some software at school that lets us create our own e-books in that format. Works well on a wide screen monitor.
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After you have received the Zinio digital magazine, it's a simple click on the page to enlarge the image where my old eyes can more easily read it. ;) Monte
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After you have received the Zinio digital magazine, it's a simple click on the page to enlarge the image where my old eyes can more easily read it. ;) Monte
Thats all well and good but you cant wedge a door open or swat a fly with a digital mag.!!
lou
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After you have received the Zinio digital magazine, it's a simple click on the page to enlarge the image where my old eyes can more easily read it. ;) Monte
Thats all well and good but you cant wedge a door open or swat a fly with a digital mag.!! lou
So true. And I do enjoy piling up in the bed with a decent magazine or book. My wife is talking Kindle... Monte
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Something about reading on the computer makes my eyes much more tired than reading print...half the time if there's something long or technical I want to read that's on the computer (like my owner's manual for our camera...nothing in print anymore >:() I print it out to read it.
It's hard to make notes in the digital world...
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The BMW MOA has just announced that they will offer their monthly magazine to members online. You can see the December issue (http://digital.turn-page.com/title/4865) even if you're not a member. Members will still get the paper version, but no longer have to wait for the post office to deliver it.
My wife bought a Kindle (1.0) and the display is easier on the eyes than a computer monitor, because it's not backlit. You can read it nearly anywhere you could read a book. There are other nice features, like the ability to bump up the font size. Amazon remembers everything you've ever bought, and you can re-download anything at any time, free of charge.
The downside of the Kindle is that IMHO the interface is pretty clunky. It is possible to search for something you remember reading, but it isn't very easy. (As a computer programmer, I had an idea that a Kindle might replace the huge stack of manuals and books that routinely occupy all my desk space, but it's just not feasible for me, yet.) There are other difficulties; books with images don't translate well to the grayscale display and lose important details to save space and download time (the Kindle 2.0 should be better for this). It can also be difficult to understand where a caption ends and the book text continues.