Comments are off. They were turned on by accident, anyway. This should stop the spam at least.
Comments are off. They were turned on by accident, anyway. This should stop the spam at least.
I see that New Yorker Magazine just did something very nifty: The Complete New Yorker Portable Hard Drive. Although having it online as a subscription service would be great, too, this is an awesome thing to have it if you want to read past articles, search articles, or just relax by reading stuff from the past — recollections or articles friends have pointed you towards. Of course, I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time, but not just for the New Yorker. No, what I would love to see is Analog (nee Astounding) and other SF magazines provide their old issues in a digital format. I do realize that there’s some level of difficulty in doing so, what with getting rights from the various authors, scanning in art, entering all the text, etc. However, I’m sure there are enough fans out there that they’d help do most of the heavy lifting and provide it back to the various owners of the rights gratis, ala Wikipedia. Imagine if you could access, whenever you wanted, entire issues of Analog/Astounding, IASFM, Worlds of If, Galaxy, F&SF, etc.! You could simply ask to read stories by the likes of Larry Niven