Food and Wine, Gourmet etc...

roux42

My living situation is changing and I need to get rid of some stuff... I have many years worth of various cooking (mostly Food and Wine) magazines and they are yours if you want them!

I do need to get rid of them soon! If anyone is interested please respond to this post ASAP!

Thanks!

daveb

Not that I want the mags (thanks though), I thought I should mention that the company I work for (a publisher of alcohol, tobacco and food magazines) has been experimenting with a service that takes our print ready PDFs (what we send to the printer that ends up in your mailbox) and downsampling and crunching the size, formatting it for desktop use (hyperlinking articles and that good stuff that makes digital format cool) and basically outputting a pdf format that can emailed to subscribers. It has security so only joe-subscriber can open it (yeah, betcha it takes 2 secs to bypass too). The idea they're floating is allowing print subscribers this option as well. To me, it seemed great because, like you, I've been buried under magazines for years. It would be awesome to be able to archive recipes and all that stuff I can't throw away onto a CD. I don't know if they'll be going for it - we've done a few test runs, but I'm hoping it's a trend that might take off, if not with my company than with others.

carnivore

daveb wrote: Not that I want the mags (thanks though), I thought I should mention that the company I work for (a publisher of alcohol, tobacco and food magazines) has been experimenting with a service that takes our print ready PDFs (what we send to the printer that ends up in your mailbox) and downsampling and crunching the size, formatting it for desktop use (hyperlinking articles and that good stuff that makes digital format cool) and basically outputting a pdf format that can emailed to subscribers. It has security so only joe-subscriber can open it (yeah, betcha it takes 2 secs to bypass too). The idea they're floating is allowing print subscribers this option as well. To me, it seemed great because, like you, I've been buried under magazines for years. It would be awesome to be able to archive recipes and all that stuff I can't throw away onto a CD. I don't know if they'll be going for it - we've done a few test runs, but I'm hoping it's a trend that might take off, if not with my company than with others.

Scientific and medical journals have been moving in that direction for years. Some are actually completely eliminating the paper version.

roux42

Subject: The senses

Yes... I could read all those magazines online... But sitting in front of my computer drinking tea and reading Saveur (keeping those) online is just not the same as thumbing through pages of pretty pictures!