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To celebrate our impact factor of 36.101, we're offering personal subscriptions for jus £36/$36 (euros too) http://ow.ly/5uNoC

Tyler said:

These would look great sitting on my coffee table.  Just for impressing people, this is worth the price.  Hopefully they don't ask me too many questions about what they actually say.

Ha.

I payed full for a subscription once–there are news items and, editorials that are easy to follow, but the journal articles less so (for me). and it went the way of most of my magazine subscriptions and I let it lapse. particularly since it's pretty expensive for an individual subscription. :/

but the deal was pretty cool, so I couldn't resist. I miss having a real physical science magazine. (I'll be happy when there is a reading tablet that works nicely for magazines).

Andrea_A said:

sheila said:

… I miss having a real physical science magazine. (I'll be happy when there is a reading tablet that works nicely for magazines).

Or the Journals have to get better adapted for electronic reading apps. I don't see bigger tablets capable of displaying full-page PDF as a real option. Those devices would be less portable (and probably more expensive).

At the moment other concepts suffer from a lack of typography. For example, epub specification allows embedding of fonts, but at the moment this gets overridden. So instead of the publisher's corporate typeface the reader ends up with Times&Co.

At work, our boss showed us interesting concepts on the iPad, including multimedia. But such apps have to be developed — and the programmers should have typographic/media design knowledge, too.

I agree with you on the typographic design needs! I like having frontend designers/developers available around here since I am only a bystander when it comes to those things.

I bought a kindle dx (twice, because I broke the first one) because I wanted to be able to open pdfs on an ereader. meh meh meh. It hasn't turned out as awesome as I hoped. It would be fantastic to have a nice reading interface for technical books or magazines or whatever, but the kindle dx isn't there. I haven't played with an ipad so I don't know what I think about it. One of the main reasons I got a kindle was to get something with digital ink, and the ipad is heavy and glossy and I think my eyes would hurt after a while.

I'm hoping to see some tablets or netbooks with swivalable displays or whatever that use something like pixel qi. I've been waiting and waiting. There are 10' kits out there and I might eventually give in and use one of those. eh, I think I can wait.

Anyway, I still prefer actual books for the programming stuff. I do a lot of flipping back and forth. they aren't usually readable from front to back. kindle is pretty poor on that metric, compared to viewing a pdf in something like Preview.app or even on a webpage. you can see page thumbnails for a zoomed out map kind of view, and you can switch over to a search results thing where there are little visual hints in the scroll bar marking every occurance of your search term. very excellent for jumping from result to result