Zinio Magazine Reader App Released

[glowfly]

i have never had a problem reading magazines and ebooks on my iphone.. The iphone applications made for these purposes serve the purpose and i dont think a would ever need an itablet

 

[bshakil]

i have never had a problem reading magazines and ebooks on my iphone.. The iphone applications made for these purposes serve the purpose and i dont think a would ever need an itablet

iphone is ok for magazines.. but for ebooks iphone give me headache after staring at the screen for longer period of time....

 

[rhett7660]

Did y'all actually download the app? I wasn't sure about it at first...

Yes, the iPhone screen seems too small to read a magazine on. But it's not too small to read a text on. And that's the sweetness of this little app. It takes the articles in the magazine and turns them basically a more functional text message. You can resize and rewrap the text (can't do that with the pinch, eh) in the "optimized text view".

Here's the best way to do it: Download the PC Magazine entirely; the app doesn't do much until you get the whole magazine downloaded. Then, turn the thing on it's side and use landscape mode to swipe through the pages. The text is big enough to see the pictures and read the titles, so what more do you want for something that fits in your pocket? When you get to the article that you want to read, tap the magic button at the bottom.

The magic button turns the image into pure text. If more than one story is on the page, it'll even ask you which one you want to read. When it comes up, you're in business. Tap for font size selection. Go as big as you like, because it'll rewrap the text. It's even got links in the story that will open up safari and take you right to a website. It'll even send the whole article as an email (complete with any of the above mentioned links).

When you're done, you hit the magic button again and go back to swipe mode for more magazine-like reading. Spend 10 minutes with it and you'll start to wish that you could use this thing to check your gmail. Spend 20 minutes with it and you'll wish they had more magazines available for it.

Fantastic.

Thanks for the review. I have used the desktop aversion and what stopped me from really getting into this was the inability to take the magazine with me. You can't print to pdf or any other file format since it is DRM'ed. I will look into this and see maybe opting back in for the digital one instead of the hard copy.

Thanks again.

 

[pagansoul]

I used to be a Zinio subscriber, but would never touch this garbage again.

Heavily DRM-ed, can't save anything, useless as tearsheets.

The moment you are no longer a current subscriber, all of the issues, of all publications you've already paid for, became unavailable to you!

Only an idiot would subscribe to this.

Why would you close your account. It's free. Just back up all you purchased mags on your computer. You don't have to buy anything, just keep your account.