Food and Wine, Gourmet etc...

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.