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Zinio Reader
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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As a PC Magazine subscriber, I now need to use Zinio's reader to read the now all-digital magazine. But I have a problem: I can't find a download link for the reader. Zinio's links (all of 'em) from the "Get Reader" page go to "file not found" errors. I do NOT want to have to read this magazine online all the time, so I need to get this straightened out.
Does anyone else use the Zinio Reader? How's it work for you? Anything I should know about it as a Mac user? Can anyone point me to a "good" link for the Leopard version of the reader?
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I clicked the link for "Download Zinio Reader" in the footer on their main page. Each download linked for me on that page.
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Vandelay Industries
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I don't have Leopard so I can't help you there. But I used it first with a College textbook and it worked great. Then I found out about the digital magazines and it has also been working fine. They email you when your next issue is ready to download also.
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32GB iPad 2 | 32GB iPhone 4 | 11' MacBook Air 1.6 i5, 4GB, 128GB SSD
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To follow up on your question about impressions of the software... I used it over a year ago when I still had a couple of subscriptions. Back then, it was only PPC. The performance was slow. The interface wasn't great.
It wasn't very convenient to read from. It insists on laying out the file just like a real magazine from left to right, instead of like a PDF where you can go top to bottom. If you want to see the whole page, then the text is blurry and too small to read. You have to zoom in to see it. Also, it didn't have live scrolling. So panning around on a zoomed screen was done blindly. I found I was zooming in to read, zooming out to re-center on a different section to read and zooming back in to read over and over.
It was nice to have a magazine sent digitally so I wasn't wasting paper, but it was not convenient to read. Thankfully, my subscription ended after a few months. Since I had already read online most everything in the magazine before the magazine was published, I didn't bother to renew.
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Vandelay Industries
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Their site must have been having problems this morning. Not only did the link in angelmb's post work, but their site worked better-instead of making me hunt around, it immediately offered the reader software for download.
Unfortunately I don't have much of a choice with this situation-I had renewed for a couple of years before they converted to once a month (vs. twice a month most months for 22 issues per year), so I'm subscribed for about 3 1/2 more years... We'll see how this goes. But I also expect their online stuff to be significantly more available to me as a subscriber now and maybe they'll do something with that in exchange for shortening my subscription.
Thanks for all the help folks!
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Glenn -----
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