iCreate is an extremely well done publication, providing basic and advance tutorials and reviews for all of Apple’s iLife and professional software, and hardware. The iPad/iPhone version is only $4.99 per issue. ICreate I believe is a London-based publication that cost about $16 per issue here in the States. The iCreate app cost $1.99 with a free first issue. The Nation app is a free download, with a free issue. You can purchase single issues or subcriptions of a publication via the apps themselves. There are a couple of dozen more Pixelmags app for both the iPad and the iPhone. I have downloaded the The Nation and iCreate (iTunes Store links) magazines. Unlike Zinio, which handles and distributes several publications, PixelMags are single publication apps. Your subscriptions can also be downloaded to your Mac, iPhone and iPod touch. (Incidently, there’s so much overlap between the online, paper, and e-pub versions of Macworld that you wonder what is the advantage of subscribing to the magazine when you can get lots of free content online.)Īll your Zinio magazines are kept in your library, on both on your iPad as well as your online account. This is really great for e-pubs like Macworld which include links within nearly all its articles. You can activate links with Zinio publications, which opens web pages within the app’s browser. Not even Apple or Amazon allow for copying and pasting of text in their e-readers. In the Text view you can actually select and copy text, as well as email entire pages. It also features Text mode, similar to the new Reader feature in Safari 5, that strips away graphic detail and delivers up only the text of the article. It provides two methods for accessing thumbnails views, and another menu button for pulling up the table of contents without having to tap back to the front of the magazine. Though it will remember the last page you visited before closing a magazine. It does not, but should, feature a tool for bookmarking individual pages. The Zinio app allows you to browse and shop for other publications within the application itself. Viewing two-page spreads in landscape mode makes the pages a little too small for adequate reading, but it’s okay for browsing the content.īeyond the ease of navigation and reliability of pages, both apps offer a few unique features. I also actually think that pages are best read in the portrait position of the iPad. You can also scroll thumbnails of pages, which is pretty convenient.Īs a reader with increasingly poor eyesight, I particularly like how I can pinch or tap to enlarge the size of pages for better reading. Like other standard e-readers such as Apple‘s iBook and ‘s Kindle app, the Zinio and Pixelmags apps are very easy to navigate-you tap the sides of the screen to turn pages, and you can position the iPad for both single page reading in portrait mode, and two-page spread viewing in landscape mode. Each app delivers high quality resolution, though not as slick as the paper edition. I currently subscribe to Macworld, e-published on Zinio, and The Nation magazine, produced on a PixelMags app. Well, it looks as if the iPad may be the very tool to set me free. I often think about how much space they take up in my closet and on book shelves. But in some ways I feel imprisoned by my piles of old publications. I have stacks of paper magazines in my office that are very hard for me dispose of, because I sometimes manage to flip back through them for interesting topics and ideas. There’s simply no better device on the market that I know of for full-color, quality display of digital magazines and newspapers. I’ve written about article and PDF reader apps, and now I want to point out some fairly good magazine apps for the iPad. If I had to say which is my number one reason for liking and using the iPad, I would give two thumbs up for magazine and web-based article reading.
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