Feb
22
2012
22
2012
Popular Science
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Popular Science
Bring Popular Science Magazine to life with the Kindle digital edition. On the Kindle, the vivid photos of Popular Science have never looked better, and the easy navigation allows for a relaxing reader experience. Take your Popular Science issues with you and have available on demand. �The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces to help make it better. Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve our world.� -Mark Jannot, Edi
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Rosemary Feasey, Anne Goldsworthy, John Stringer, Roy Phipps New Star Science Ye
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Digital is the way to go!,
When I got my Kindle Fire, one of the things I most wanted to check out was the Newsstand, where magazines would go. My first subscription was to Popular Science. So far, I’ve received automatic downloads of the November and December 2011 issues.
The magazine looks great on the Kindle Fire screen. The downloadable edition apparently includes everything that’s in the print edition, including advertisements. The graphics are vibrant and sharp, and the text is very crisp. I can just barely read the text in the normal view, but double-tapping the screen enlarges it to 2X. You can also pinch-and-zoom with your fingers.
Tapping the Menu icon on the Options bar brings up the linked index of articles. Tapping an article name brings up the article, with scrollable thumbnails of other pages at the bottom (you can make the thumbnails go away by tapping once at the bottom of the screen).
This is definitely the future of magazines (perhaps newspapers, too). No more stacks of magazines piled up in the house, and no angst of deleting them from my Kindle Fire to free up memory, since the magazines will remain stored in Amazon’s Cloud.
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|A digital version of the whole dead tree editiion,
There’s a free trial, just take a look at it. It’s a high quality “scan” (straight digital print really) of the paper version. No useless movies or clutter. A jump-to index might have been nice like some other magazines have, but this is a solid choice. I actually went for this rather than the dead tree version.
On a PC, it’ll look fabulous in high res. I mainly use it on my Kindle Fire though. You can just make out all the text without zooming in on the 7″ display, but it’s easier on your eyes to zoom in a bit – which works just fine. iPad and other 10″ tablet users will have a better experience than fire users since the screen is 2x as big. Kindle DX users are fine too, if you can do without color.
A great option for those who are getting tired of magazine clutter, but still want reading material.
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|Disappointed,
I have been a PS subscriber for decades. I am disappointed that this is an add on for PS. I subscribe to other magazines that simply offer an electronic version at no additional cost. Most of the time I would prefer to read the paper version however the ability to access a current issue when I am away would be desireable. I really grow weary of another attempt to squeeze yet another nickel, or in this case $1.99, out of folks while not producing anything new.
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