youd think they could just suck all the text out and dump it in the good format im not sure what the problem is
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
actually I think I deal with the Kindle but I am not gonna go back and pay to get articles from issues past (for which I would have to pay for Kindle, and I have this dumb online archive subscription for the moment).
So before I cancel dumb online archive subscription and stick to Kindle-only going forward, pleasepleaseplease can ya'll help me with of must-reads from like the past 12 months? Just whatever you remember being awesome in addition to trans teens and giant squids.
― quincie, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
there is a not very useful thread fwiw This is the thread where we point out goodies we find in *The Complete New Yorker*
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
the other David grann piece about the American spy for Cuba is the first thing that comes to mind
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
And yeah this one: btw the one from december about the DMV middle manager who invented his own language and then discovered it had been adopted by a crazy russian far-right psy-ops militant movement was so so good
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ice craem man help me out here with the more recent stuff. In no particular order, I have something like:
1) trans teens (aren't there two articles on this? 2)giant squid 3) language inventor 4) Cuban spy (thanks N/A)
5-20 = ?
― quincie, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
heres yr grann archives http://www.newyorker.com/search?rows=10&contributorName=david+grann&sort=publishdate+desc%2C+score+desc&page=1
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
second this
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
squid piece is old btw
btw that squid guy REALLY loves neil diamond huh
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
other awesome pieces that come to mind
- libertarian billionaire by george packer- all louis menand, partic his pieces on dwight macdonald and ts eliot- "dr don" pharmacist in rural colorado or whatever - bitcoins- james suroweicki's recent column on the soda tax- atul gawande on "hot spotting" (this may not be within a year but as a health care person you should read it)- piece on dakotah eliason and the juvenile justice system- tyler clementi :(- caro on LBJ- raw milk crazies- genetically modified mosquitos- violinist- confidential informants- sark- soldier who tries to track down the family he massacred in iraq- rachel aviv on sex offenders
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 March 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
how did you remember all that
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
did you just look itt
dope list kev, +1ing Dr Don & addingwhoever wrote about Neanderthalsall Batuman, particularly Gobekli Tepe & the bird sanctuary& the Derek Parfit profe
― schlump, Monday, 25 March 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
anyway i read most of those and they were good, except caro, that guy cant be serious
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:32 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha m/l
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 March 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
OK I have read some of those but mostly not, gonna hijack my in-law's printer and PRINT those I have not yet read, then cancel dumb online archive subscription and stick to Kindle edition. Thank you v much for recs! Everyone please post more before I cut the archive cord!
FWIW so so many of these were dog-eared in my print editions that were piled liberally around the house; when I had to move out of said house, I tossed them secure in the belief that I could read them on my laptop to my heart's content. Little did I know how sucky that reading experience would be.
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
that psychonetics one is nuts and also available online free: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer
also the hezbollah reacting to syria one i thought was really nicely written: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/02/25/130225fa_fact_filkins (not freely available)
― Mordy, Monday, 25 March 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Love Batuman, but I'd go for the women's theater over the bird sanctuary. Neolithic article is money all the way through, though.
I'd add a couple energy/environment articles, first the one on the artificial leaf (Magritte cover), and then the one about reforesting desert areas.
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Cosign on rural pharmacist, that shit was all-time.
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Monday, 25 March 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
the aussie mining lady truly seems horrible, but it is mitigated by how incredibly miserable she seems. like kane x100000
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 25 March 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
(carol kane)
ya she seems like theres something really wrong w her
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
she's got a sort of childlike mind in some respects (e.g. self-awareness), so not dissimilar to your michael jackson, say
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
Which issue is this?
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
style issue (unbelievably)
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
Still haven't gotten out. T︵T
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
It, not out.
quincie you know you can use something like readability to get long web articles onto your kindle
― caek, Monday, 25 March 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
the problemo is that the online archive isn't in standard Web format, it is in a stupid format that I can't flow into another format.
N/A, is it really the case that with the Kindle edition, the old issue is DELETED when the week's new edition is delivered? Like, I don't have access to last week's issue anymore? WTfuckingF?
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
no it should be in your archives somewhere
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 25 March 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
that is not the case, back issues stay til you delete them (and even then you can redownload them if you wanted).
― balls, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait I see it now, under "Periodicals: Back Issues". God I am dumb.
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
I promise not to pollute this thread with my digital dumbness anymore. So, what is everyone looking forward to this week?
ah right, you want to print stuff in the archive. i misunderstood. i meant you can kindlify the regular free articles posted on the web.
― caek, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
u dont get the web archives included w the kindle subscription cause u do w ipad
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think so?
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh OK I do get the web archives with the kindle subscription (this is a relatively recent development, apparently). But I would like to figure out how to get more than the past 3 issues of the kindle version, so I can read those and not the dumb web archive format.
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
btw i mentioned the horace mannl sex abuse from this week's article over the weekend, it is v good. you kind of think there are a bunch of lolita parallels but then they fall apart once you think harder
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 March 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah theyre not gonna give you back issues kindle formated lest you pay for them, at least thats the deal w the ipad vers
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
iPad app is so great
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
i could quibble but it is p great
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
hm guess i never realized that the ipad-formatted archives only go back as far as oct 2010, which makes sense i guess
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah they start when they started ipaddin'
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
horace mann abuse piece in today's issue was a really good read... like p much anything concerning 20th century NYC private school it made me think of catcher in the a lot
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 25 March 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
yes that was good. tim minchin piece was garbage.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 25 March 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
i just read that gina rinehart piece. good stuff
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
normally I am OK with Sedaris, but this week's piece was a must-miss.
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
did the tim minchin piece describe him as garbage?
― caek, Monday, 25 March 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
The history of the fork is so awful, so obviously insular and self-obsessed that I keep checking the byline to see if it's an Adam Gopnik piece.
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link