i read every issue cover to cover BUT: only in the bathroom or on iPadand I'm always about three months behindnot in the bathroomon the magazine
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
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, 11 January 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
I just finished the Chevron feature -- it's Bleak House meets The Verdict.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
at least the NYRB publishes every few weeks and I can dispatch it at lunch.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Oh god I have such a NYer pile problem, which is now being exacerbated by the spouse's Atlantic pile problem.
― quincie, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
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 :(
― quincie, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
atlantic is only 10 times a year!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
I made myself throw away everything pre-2010
you did the right thing (see holidays at home thread for full hoarding horror stories)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
I do sigh with relief when The New Yorker publishes one of its biweekly editions.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
This is a publisher that persists with diaereses in the 21st century so
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
donate New Yorker back issues to the underprivileged for xmas, leave them in their bathrooms like a highbrow santa claus
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
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
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
yah they should hav an iphone app 4 sure
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
they 'hope to in the future' lol gfy
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
sittin around looking at butterflies hopin 4 a iphone app
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
tbf its many pieces of paper
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
and staples, sorry
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
and ink
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
^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
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
its more of a dream really
printed on shitty stock tbh
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
pretty rough maaaan
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
no downloading in the background
This might be Adobe's fault (it's built on the Adobe Digital Editions platform, and iirc no ADE apps do auto-downloads) <-- could be 100% wrong on every level
how each poem listing section etc gets its own spot in the line up kinda clogs up the feed
I'm happy to put that down to them learning how best to lay it out (same goes for the right-running text and left-running white space).
how large the file sizes are I already had to archive a couple but why
Yeah I agree, 120–150 Mb per edition is pretty piss-poor. No excuse for that when most of the edition is text and line drawings.
there was no way to restart the audio from where I left off like no lil slider thing at allfeel like the drop down toc isn't descriptive enough like im never sure what the articles are abt could use sub titles
Agreed, in fact you are making me angry with Condé Nast ffs
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
Okay now I can see how much this app sucks, but I stand by my original point i.e. that it's one of the best publications on the app store. There's some absolute dross out there, most of which either crashes routinely or is just an exact replication of the print edition.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
i think the side scroll between articles and then the vertical scrolling to dip into the articles layout concept is p ingenious, like i find myself unconsciously visualizing the whole thing, maybe other magazines use that too idk this is my only ipad subscription - and the typography is good, it v easy to read - like i said the details just need some refinement
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
i think the side scroll between articles and then the vertical scrolling to dip into the articles layout concept is p ingenious, like i find myself unconsciously visualizing the whole thing
Yeah, that's the Adobe Digital Editions format. Properly briliant. All the Condé Nasts use it, as well as National Geographic and a few others.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Did anyone else find Remnick's review of the latest Obama book sort of ... self-serving in its snide dismissals? Maybe someone who hadn't written their own premature account of the Obamas might have been a better choice?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
Just wanted to rep hard for Acocella's dance articles, love those. (But then, I barely know anything about dance.)
Also, I read it almost cover-to-cover -- even the lol theatre reviews -- the only things I regularly skip are the fiction, S&M, and poems. I rarely ever skip a full-on feature, the last two to my mind are IKEA and the execrable David Brooks one.
― lEEE (Leee), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
the latest shouts and murmurs abt romney meeting people is p funny
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
haven't read it but it is never funny
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
remember that like, spectrum of gayness one a month or two back? what the hell was that
ya agree re: the romney 1; it was trillin i think, & more brief than usual, i think i smirked or something, home run for s&m
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
haha i was reading that on the train today, it wasnt funny but it managed 'amusing'.
gopnik's piece on histories of the spanish inquisition is both bizarrely high-handed and scattershot. its somewhat of a feat to have the worst piece in an issue w/ an on and off the ave article
― 404 (Lamp), Friday, 13 January 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yknow what the romney thing WAS kinda funny
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure how amenable you all are to old article alerts but this one about North Korea:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/12/100712fa_fact_demick
Written by Barbara Demick, who also wrote an incredible book about North Korea a couple of years ago. This article is 18 months old, but it throws up an interesting perspective of Kim Jong-eun, and of course it's beautifully written.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 13 January 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
v amenable to old article alerts btw, the never particularly active 'what should i read in the nyer archives' thread was a goldmine
i have the demick book sat on my shelf, maybe i should read my way into it via the article
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 13 January 2012 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
You must. The book is more a series of narratives based on factual accounts, but every bit as absorbing.
btw this week's youtube piece is everything we already know about youtube, but packaged concisely and within the context of a changing broadcast industry. I hate the end of that last sentence but got sick of trying to reword it so
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 14 January 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
utube piece was ok, can't wait to see how awful all the shows turn out
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link