I have a subscription to Rail Express on Zinio but won't be renewing it, as I have their reader. Much perfer to have a PDF to scan through at leisure. I'll stick to printed paper when it runs out.

Railway Herald has gone subscription only (£18.00 a year) and has enlarged it's content considerably. They have listened to comments and will be offering it as PDF or Zinio to suit everyone.

Quote from: silly moo on February 19, 2012, 04:18:09 AM
I get mine on my iPad and buy them one issue at a time, I have bought almost a years worth of Hornby magazine but have just started with BRM, it's only just become available. I've found BRM doesn't always interest me so I might not buy every issue.

Veronica, How do you get BRM onyour ipad? I looked on Newsstand and search came up empty. Maybe it's not available inthe US?

Have emailed BRM about not being able to download magazine (it says on their website and in mag, 'read anytime no need for wifi or 3G etc').

Went back onto pocket mags, have eventually found a part of FAQ that says -

'Online reader: Digital issues are viewed in-browser using the Microsoft Silverlight plugin. This plugin is freely available for most web browsers on both PC and Mac. An active internet connection is required while reading an issue. The online reader includes many new features, including on page videos, image galleries, hyperlinks and page jumps. Pages can be printed using the print menu on the reader (printing can take up to 1 minute, in this time your browser may become unresponsive).'

Also tried save as in tools, this doesn't work either.

Dissapointed with the technology £2.49 wasted.

But we learn by our mistakes.

Paul

That is disappointing Paul. I would want to have them saved too. You never know when they would decide to make them unavailable, and part of wanting a mag is to read when you have no connection!

I've just read one of the BRMs with my iPad offline, so I have issues saved on my device. Perhaps you only need the Internet running for website links to work?

BRM comes from Pocketmags and appears on Newsstand on my iPad . Suggest you try their website and register there.

I'm in South Africa so it should work in America too. The advert in BRM suggests that the digital version of the magazine will be more convenient for overseas readers.

Regards

Veronica.

I have sent a question to the Pocketmags helpline about whether issues are saved on your device, so we should get an answer soon.

But looking at it logically, most people wouldn't want to buy a digital magazine if they had to download it each time they wanted to read it. You would need to be connected to the Internet for the web links to work though.

One thing I do know is that if you have more than one device each issue has to be downloaded on to each device.

I must have been lucky with Pocketmags and got it working without any problems, which is quite unusual as I'm a real Luddite.

Regards,

Veronica.

Quote from: galway on February 19, 2012, 01:15:56 PM
'Online reader: Digital issues are viewed in-browser using the Microsoft Silverlight plugin. This plugin is freely available for most web browsers on both PC and Mac.

And is widely considered 'dead', as it's a poor man's Flash ...

I think this is the first site (apart from MS, of course) I've heard of using it !!

Mike

Mike, there are a number of American and Japanese railcams that use silverlight

I have had a reply from Pocketmags about having to download the BRM issue each time you read it on your PC or Mac desktop or laptop. I'm afraid that that is the case but they say they are working on a programme to allow PC users to read with downloading each time.

I'm not sure whether this is the case with Zinio as well. I hardly use my PC now that I have a iPad and can confirm that I have two copies of BRM that I can read offline.

So perhaps it's best to check before shelling out.

Regards

Veronica.

Quote from: MikeDunn on February 19, 2012, 04:39:09 PM

Quote from: galway on February 19, 2012, 01:15:56 PM
'Online reader: Digital issues are viewed in-browser using the Microsoft Silverlight plugin. This plugin is freely available for most web browsers on both PC and Mac.

And is widely considered 'dead', as it's a poor man's Flash ...

I think this is the first site (apart from MS, of course) I've heard of using it !!

Mike

Microsoft's not actually killed off Silverlight yet, but it looks on the cards.