I have been a subscriber to ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION for more than 60 years ... and EVERY MONTH the quality of the stories is un-matched, and stunning. Makes your best SCIFI movies seem childish and formulaic. For the past five years I have been getting ANALOG on my Laptop Computer with either NOOK FOR PC, or Amazon's KINDLE FOR PC, and going into the file structure, and saving them in another folder to archive them. RECENTLY both Amazon and Barnes and Noble stopped making them available to my PC, and now I had to resurrect an old Android Galaxy Reader to get the latest version ... which I CAN ONLY "RENT" the magazines ... I cannot own them ... anymore.
There is no currently known way I can extract them from the NOOK or KINDLE to get into my permanent possession the MAGAZINES I PAID FOR.
With paper copies of the magazine I can go back and re-read stories from 1974, if I want to. They are MINE. I paid for them... I have them ... and I can access them any time I want, not dependent on the vagaries of corporate policy changes that decide that I can NOW only rent the right to read what I have paid for. If I do not have access to WIFI, I cannot even read them. If technology changes, or corporate management becomes any more clueless, what then?
I LIKE owning my magazines .... AND I like being able to read then on a 17" wide monitor, instead of a 3" wide monitor.
I am 72 years old ant that is REALLY important. Most of the people who subscribe to ANALOG, my guess is, have been subscribers for at least 35 years, and in my case more than 60 years ... and I am mad as hell about a PERFECT system being totally screwed up.
ACCORDINGLY ... I have subscribed to a paper copy of ANALOG, to be delivered to my home ... and having learned a very important lesson I could have done without, am switching back to paper copies of the magazines and books I want, directly from the publisher, until such time as I find out either how to transfer a magazine into an off-line folder, or they once again make them available so I can read them on my laptops wide screen, AND continue to extract the electronic version from the providers software, to a non-volatile folder on my laptop.
I highly recommend the magazine in PAPER format, for the same reason that owning you own home is far superior than renting an apartment, subject to the vagaries and arbitrary decisions of a landlord.
I wasted my money THIS year on an electronic version of ANALOG ..... but like food and water being addictive in a GOOD way, look forward to the U.S. Postal Service to deliver me paper copies that I can actually OWN.
"Renting" magazines is a crappy solution, for those who still pay for quality products and services.
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Last update: 12-25-2024
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