Digital magazines

[silly moo]

Does anyone else get digital versions of railway modelling magazines?

I get the Hornby magazine from Zinio and have just discovered that British Railway Modelling is available from Pocketmags. Pocketmags also have the Hornby magazine a bit cheaper than Zinio so I will be buying both mags from them in future.

I have found downloaded magazines a real boon because I live thousands of miles away, subscriptions cost a lot and postage is slow. It is nice to have a real magazine in your hands but they do take up lots of space.

One real advantage for me is being able to zoom in and enlarge text to make it easier to read.

I wonder if any of the other railway magazines will go digital?

Regards

Veronica.

[Sprintex]

Sort of. I will occasionally buy a paper copy of Railway Modeller if there's some interesting N Gauge in it (like I will with the April edition which has an update on Copenhagen Fields), but otherwise I buy the CD-Rom Annual at the end of the year. It has all the articles and layouts from the whole twelve months, plus usually some video features, all for £16.50 with no adverts 


Paul

[moogle]

I wonder if any of the other railway magazines will go digital?

Regards

Veronica.

Possibly Model Rail. But I would be very surprised if Railway Modeller did.
At least not in the next few years.
After all, look how long it took them to allow website and email addresses into the magazine!

[Jack]

Sort of. I will occasionally buy a paper copy of Railway Modeller if there's some interesting N Gauge in it (like I will with the April edition which has an update on Copenhagen Fields), but otherwise I buy the CD-Rom Annual at the end of the year. It has all the articles and layouts from the whole twelve months, plus usually some video features, all for £16.50 with no adverts 


Paul

Nice tip Paul, never thought about that one.

Jack

[zwilnik]

Cool. Hadn't realised BRM had a Newstand edition (£1.99 for the app and £19.99 for the annual subscription). That'll be a lot handier than the stacks of magazines (even more appreciated now I'm packing for a move )

[Lawrence]

US based freebie  http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node

[scotsoft]

US based freebie  http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node

I joined last week, there are loads of great ideas in them 

I almost have all of them downloaded so I can read them at my leisure  :computersmile:

[galway]

Read this, thought what a great idea, saves me the 84km round trip to get mag!
Ordered and paid for mag, got email confirmation, but where's my mag? there was no attachment. Am I missing something? is there something I should do to retrieve mag? any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks
Paul

[scotsoft]

Read this, thought what a great idea, saves me the 84km round trip to get mag!
Ordered and paid for mag, got email confirmation, but where's my mag? there was no attachment. Am I missing something? is there something I should do to retrieve mag? any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks
Paul

Do you not have to go back to the site and download it?

I don't know for sure if this is what you have to do but when I joined the Model Railroad Hobbyist site I had to download the mags from their site.

cheers John.

[galway]

Thanks John, went back on site as you suggested, there is a section 'my magazines' the mag is there and I can read it, but I was hoping to download the actual mag onto my pc, if I have to go online every time I want to read the mag or refer to it, I dont think I will be going this route again, its back to driving  :'(

[zwilnik]

Thanks John, went back on site as you suggested, there is a section 'my magazines' the mag is there and I can read it, but I was hoping to download the actual mag onto my pc, if I have to go online every time I want to read the mag or refer to it, I dont think I will be going this route again, its back to driving  :'(

The Newstand app version downloads direct to your iPhone/iPad/iPod so you can read it wherever you want. I'm guessing that if they've also got an online version there's a good chance there's versions of some sort for other devices too.

[scotsoft]

Thanks John, went back on site as you suggested, there is a section 'my magazines' the mag is there and I can read it, but I was hoping to download the actual mag onto my pc, if I have to go online every time I want to read the mag or refer to it, I dont think I will be going this route again, its back to driving  :'(

If there is text you click on to read the mag, try right clicking on that text and see if it will let you save it to your computer.

It may come up with a menu where an option is "Save target as...." or something similar.

Hope that works out for you - John.

[Mustermark]

Thanks John, went back on site as you suggested, there is a section 'my magazines' the mag is there and I can read it, but I was hoping to download the actual mag onto my pc, if I have to go online every time I want to read the mag or refer to it, I dont think I will be going this route again, its back to driving  :'(

I have the modelrail hobbyists saved on my computer.  When you get the mag from the website it should be an Adobe pdf? Go to file and choose save as.

[silly moo]

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.

Although it costs a bit more I like having the option of buying single issues just like you would with a 'real' magazine.

Regards

Veronica.

[longbridge]

While on the subject of downloading magazines how about this lot fro Model Railroader, every addition from 75 years ago to the present day and all for $199us, crikey I think I would go bonkers sorting through that lot.

http://www.kalmbachstore.com/15120.html

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