New Yorker magazine on hard drive

[shtick]

Last year, I purchased a set of DVDs that contained every page of every issue of The New Yorker.

This year, The New Yorker started selling a hard drive edition of their entire collection.

I'd like to make my own hard drive edition using an 80GB Western Digital portable drive and the New Yorker DVDs.

What's the best way to do this? Disk utility?

Thanks!

[Seacrest]

http://gustaf.symbiandiaries.com/weblog/...drive.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/11/how...he_cr.html

[Monster]

or, couldn't you just create a bunch of DVD images on the HD, and then use those images when you want to view the DVDs

[$tevie]

How is that Complete New Yorker, shtick? I heard rather bad reviews about it being very difficult to search for anything, and perhaps other negative comments that I can't recall right now. I really wanted to get it but my enthusiasm drooped when I heard the negative comments. What do you think? Have you found it difficult to navigate?

[shtick]

Thanks for the links!

Here's my pro/con analysis of the New Yorker DVD collection:

+
great to have all that content at my fingertips
Mac and PC compatible
searching works fine for me so far
bopping through the cartoons is fun
actual pages were scanned; stains and yellowing add a nostalgic feel
easy to navigate, flip, zoom, and move
option to upgrade/add new issues every year
DVDs come in a nice coffee table book
you can recycle your paper editions with few qualms

-
actual pages were scanned, so some pages look faded, yellowed
mildly inconvenient to have to switch DVDs
not conducive to bathtub reading
just like the paper edition, you feel guilty if you don't read it

[$tevie]

Thank you, shtick. I think I would like to get it, after reading your list. Very helpful!