Has anyone switched their Handwoven subscription to digital and read the magazine through Zinio? I'm thinking about doing that so I can have them with me when traveling, even if it's only the issues starting now. But I worry that I'll be disappointed. 

Sure would like to hear from someone who has done this or is thinking about doing it.

Tina

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Thu, 10/03/2013 - 02:58

laurafry

I tried to buy a Kindle subscription but since I'm in Canada, I can't.  :(

And here I was, about ready to leap into the 21st C and all.  :^)

cheers,

Laura

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 04:35

blueskies (not verified)

Today I received my second issue of my Handwoven subscription on my Nook e-reader, I am happy that I have switched to the digital format.  It is easy to scroll through the magazine, enlarge the text and pictures for viewing.  It easy to see the weave structure in the photographs.  At least in the Nook, you can select a page and put it in a personal scrapbook on the e-reader for saving to view later.  That way you don't have to wonder where the project is in the magazine, or which magazine. You can't e-mail the scrapbook to your e-mail account so you could print out the draft.  However, I suspect I could scan the image with my computer scanner and not have to sit down with graph paper to create a user friendly draft. 

I have Handwoven's back to the mid 1980's all in 3-ring binders and they fill several bookshelves. Considering the space they take up I think this new format solves several problems: storage space availabilty, buying ring binders, and finding what I am looking for efficiently. Even if this Nook dies, all of my purchases are on the Barnes & Noble "cloud" under my account. I assume the Kindle has the same type of attributes.

Norma

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 04:36

akfoster

I don't currently have a subscription to Handwoven, but I did buy several of their back issues on CD(which are actually in PDF format) and I also have subscriptions to several magazines on Zinio.

It's really convenient for me because I have the information at my fingertips and I don't have a stack of magazines piling up.

I find that they are easy to read on a computer, but slightly more difficult on a tablet. This is mostly personal preference though since I prefer to see a whole page at once rather than zoom in on sections.

If you haven't tried digital magazines before, Zinio has some free magazines available (look under Deals/Free). At least they'll give you an idea of how a magazine will look to you on your device before you switch your subscription.

As far as I can tell, the digital magazines recreate the physical ones exactly, so it's really a matter of determining how well you like reading them on a screen rather than on paper.

AK

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 14:29

TinaHilton (not verified)

Thanks guys. I think I'm going to make the leap. We travel in our RV a lot, sometimes going south for the winter even, and it would be nice to have at least my newer Handwoven mags with me. Plus, my binders of magazines are taking up more space all time. And I'm not good about refiling them, so sometimes they're hard to find again.

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 22:07

sandra.eberhar…

I have Handwoven issues on PDF I got from Interweave, and some on Zinio.  I think I prefer the PDFs, because 1) they are on my machine and I don't have to have internet access to get them; 2) If Zinio goes away, I still have them.  I recently spent a weekend at at cottage on Lake Michigan with no cell, no internet, no TV, nada.  No zinio.