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For a more thorough look at the Digital Edition, look here. —M.C.S.
I just received a message in my in-box announcing that “the first issue of The New Yorker’s digital edition is now available.” This feature is available to anyone who has a subscription, so if you want to check it out, you should hasten to register at the New Yorker’s subscription fulfillment website.
It doesn’t seem possible, but apparently anyone with a subscription not only can read the current or recent issues in the digital reader but can also access any issue from the magazine’s 83 illustrious years of existence. Now that’s what I call added value! If that isn’t a powerful incentive to subscribe, I don’t know what is. The New Yorker is, of course, now well past its four-thousandth issue.
For those of us who bought The Complete New Yorker when it first came out, it’s almost not comprehensible to see the entire archive so prettily available in my browser—but I’ll get used to it! And the reader application does look very snazzy.
More on the interface and accessability as we learn more about it. In the meantime, we congratulate The New Yorker on this bold new era!
Comments
One major drawback: unless I’m mistaken, you can conduct a search only within one issue at a time?
Is it just me, or is it difficult to read the small print? When magnified, the print becomes blurry and enlarged only in bits and pieces, not the entire article. I find it impossible to read. I love the archives and love the New Yorker so I really hope this beta version does not become the final product. Any suggestions?
Amy: I think this is a passing problem and my guess is that it is related to the likely spike in bandwidth they are experiencing on launch day. A few minutes after I submitted this post (now yesterday), I returned to the digital reader and found that clicking for a closeup on any page led to a closeup of the blurry image with a little dial spinning indefinitely, clearly a bug of some kind. Today it’s already working correctly, and all the fine print is perfectly legible. The same is true for you, I hope?
Re: my initial comment I see now that although the search function within the reader only works within the issue currently selected, you can conduct a universal search on the magazine website, and then select any the results to see in full text in the reader.