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Zinio reader: Anybody use it and the service? Worthwhile? - JEBB - 02-19-2006
On my new (refurb) PowerBook there is preinstalled a program Zinio Reader. It evidently displays magazines to which you can subscribe. I've never heard of it. Does anybody use it? What for? What is your level of satisfaction? Thanks.
Re: Zinio reader: Anybody use it and the service? Worthwhile? - blooz - 02-19-2006
I used it for a while because i got a free six month subscription to Macworld. I had to download the reader. It works well, but it's kind of funny because the magazine shows up on your screen looking just like a physical mag, and the reader turns the pages just as you would reading a physical mag when you click the mouse.
I forgot the subscription was for six months and tossed the reader after a month or two because it came up and asked if I wanted to look for a magazine everytime I turned on my computer. Didn't hurt anything, but it annoyed me. If you have your computer on all the time that won't be a problem. There's probably some way to turn that off that I was too lazy to look for.
I don't get that much pleasure out of reading long articles on the computer, but if you're okay with that, Zinnio is satisfying enough.
Re: Zinio reader: Anybody use it and the service? Worthwhile? - Zoidberg - 02-19-2006
It's in the Startup Items button in Accounts; you can remove it there. Probably in the preferences for the program itself as well.
I bought a couple of single-issue magazines via the service; it's what it says and what it is. The quality is so-so; it's basically a scanned copy of the magazine. (A copy protected PDF.) I may be wrong but an issue that I got could not be printed, only viewed onscreen. So it's usefulness is marginal.
Re: Zinio reader: Anybody use it and the service? Worthwhile? - Refurbvirgin - 02-19-2006
The advantage of the e-version is the embedded links. You can zoom in, too.