New Yorker magazine alert thread

I hav the nyer on my ipad now, im kinda a big deal

lol @it not being able to download in the background lol @ 100mb files

I hav the nyer on my ipad now, im kinda a big deal

This is great, particularly the not-waiting-for-the-post bit.

here's the chevron piece

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/09/120109fa_fact_keefe?currentPage=all

Man I've signed up twice now to access the digital edition and archives with my subscription, but every time I try to log in it claims my email address is not recognized. Super annoying.

If you sign up to the ipad edition, you have to sign up ~again~ to get archive access. If you are not talking about the ipad edition plz ignore.

archive interface is so awful its basically not worth it anyway

i think there's one login/pw for the nyer site, then another for the archives? also, the archives only work for me on ie.

Not sure tbh.

archive interface is so awful its basically not worth it anyway

― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:42 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

On the ipad I find an article, take screenshots and read those from the camera roll.

Man, Yakuza obsessive and oil company lawsuit would both make great movies.

I can't remember the last NYer issue in which I read four feature articles (those two, plus the Gingrich and Rubio profiles).

Man, I read every issue from cover to cover. Ok, well I skip Shouts and Murmurs sometimes. And the poems.

xpost I was thinking the very same thing with this issue! I mean, I want to read everything, generally, but this may be the first in a while where I actually read four articles before the next issue arrived: Gingrich, Yakuza, Chevron and Rubio. The quadfecta!

(I always skip the fiction)

I feel like if I read every issue cover-to-cover, I'd never read anything else.

^^^ that's what i was doing for awhile and finally gave up. like why am i reading this joan acoella dance review rather than one of the 20 books i've bought in the past year and never read.

Lately it's rare for there to be more than one thing I really want to read.

i read every issue cover to cover BUT: only in the bathroom or on iPad
and I'm always about three months behind
not in the bathroom
on the magazine

yeah unless it's something i really couldn't care less about i'll pretty much read all the features, talk of the towns, critics essays, etc. i mostly skip the fiction and always skip shouts and murmurs

archive interface is so awful its basically not worth it anyway

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:42 PM (6 hours ago)

i really dont get their 'deal' tbh, why do they suck at the internet so hard? their stance on iphones is basically "go fuck yourself"

I just finished the Chevron feature -- it's Bleak House meets The Verdict.

i'm usually pretty thorough, apart from the fiction and the non- book/music/film reviews. might skip some of the latter talk of the town pieces and shouts & murmurs. if i haven't finished it by the time the next one arrives, tho, i'm done.

it's bad enough letting nyrbs pile up -- and i'm better about skipping stuff -- can't do it with the nyer too

at least the NYRB publishes every few weeks and I can dispatch it at lunch.

Oh god I have such a NYer pile problem, which is now being exacerbated by the spouse's Atlantic pile problem.

When we moved last summer (2011) I made myself throw away everything pre-2010, and it still haunts me that I had dog-earred so many articles that I will now never read :(

atlantic is only 10 times a year!

I made myself throw away everything pre-2010

you did the right thing (see holidays at home thread for full hoarding horror stories)

I do sigh with relief when The New Yorker publishes one of its biweekly editions.

i really dont get their 'deal' tbh, why do they suck at the internet so hard? their stance on iphones is basically "go fuck yourself"

This is a publisher that persists with diaereses in the 21st century so

When we moved last summer (2011) I made myself throw away everything pre-2010, and it still haunts me that I had dog-earred so many articles that I will now never read :(

i had to throw out a year's worth when i was moving once, i was mainly mad that it was just going _to waste_, because they're a good thing to just give away or leave for people to have in their bathrooms or w/e

donate New Yorker back issues to the underprivileged for xmas, leave them in their bathrooms like a highbrow santa claus

archive interface is so awful its basically not worth it anyway

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:42 PM (6 hours ago)

i really dont get their 'deal' tbh, why do they suck at the internet so hard? their stance on iphones is basically "go fuck yourself"

― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its because they just want u to subscribe to the print magazine

yeah but i do subscribe to the print magazine maybe i can't fuckin have my issue on me at all times sorry new yorker

yah they should hav an iphone app 4 sure

they 'hope to in the future' lol gfy

sittin around looking at butterflies hopin 4 a iphone app

maybe i can't fuckin have my issue on me at all times

tbf it's a fuckin piece of paper; it folds nicely and can be dropped without harm

also get off my fuckin lawn

tbf its many pieces of paper

and staples, sorry

and ink

^overlooked point

also it's like oh i have an hour to kill randomly too bad i can't read on my mobile device said pieces of paper for which btw i paid many other green pieces of paper, but it's all good this is what 1991 now

its more of a dream really

printed on shitty stock tbh

btw I don't get all the complaints about the proper ipad edition, it's up there with the best available imo

the general concept is v good imo, but there are some poorly executed details

On the ipad I find an article, take screenshots and read those from the camera roll.

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:06 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol this is amazing btw

the general concept is v good imo, but there are some poorly executed details

I don't like the way it all lines up down the right-hand side of the screen (in portrait), with a giant glob of white space on the left. Other than that, mostly superb imo.

also it's like oh i have an hour to kill randomly too bad i can't read on my mobile device said pieces of paper for which btw i paid many other green pieces of paper, but it's all good this is what 1991 now

pretty rough maaaan

or for instance if i am away from my apt for an extended period of time and cannot read my issue in print

just get w/ the times NYer srsly

I dont like: no downloading in the background, how each poem listing section etc gets its own spot in the line up kinda clogs up the feed, how large the file sizes are I already had to archive a couple but why, i was listing to an author read a story which is a nice lil feature but when I accidentally swiped away there was no way to restart the audio from where I left off like no lil slider thing at all, feel like the drop down toc isn't descriptive enough like im never sure what the articles are abt could use sub titles, and other stuff like that that could use some refining