Digital magazine subscriptions - anyone have them?

[MrBarry123]

I pay for the print and digital Evo subscription and find I use the online version far more than I do the print; so much so that the physical magazines are almost pointless for me.

[Adam B]

MrBarry123 said:

I pay for the print and digital Evo subscription and find I use the online version far more than I do the print; so much so that the physical magazines are almost pointless for me.

can't you switch to online only and save money then?

[Kermit power]

Before spending any actual money on a subscription to anything online, I'd suggest you find out what's on offer from your local library first.

Surrey Libraries have loads of magazines for free through Zinio. Amongst others....

Photography Amateur Photographer, Aperture, Digital Camera World, Digital SLR Photography

Cars Auto Express, Top Gear, Classics Monthly, Evo, What Car etc..

News The Economist, Newsweek, Forbes

Cycling Cycling Active, Cycling Plus, Cycling Weekly, Cyclist, MBR, MBUK (and just seen the latest edition is now available whilst checking the titles for posting this. )

Blokes Maxim, Esquire

There's even two different Cross Stitch magazines and a knitting one if that's your thing!

I reckon it saves me around £150 a year....

[skip_1]

We use Readly, which is great. Leeds libraries only seem to do two car mags.

[Wilksy288]

Kermit power said:

Before spending any actual money on a subscription to anything online, I'd suggest you find out what's on offer from your local library first.

Surrey Libraries have loads of magazines for free through Zinio. Amongst others....

Photography Amateur Photographer, Aperture, Digital Camera World, Digital SLR Photography

Cars Auto Express, Top Gear, Classics Monthly, Evo, What Car etc..

News The Economist, Newsweek, Forbes

Cycling Cycling Active, Cycling Plus, Cycling Weekly, Cyclist, MBR, MBUK (and just seen the latest edition is now available whilst checking the titles for posting this. )

Blokes Maxim, Esquire

There's even two different Cross Stitch magazines and a knitting one if that's your thing!

I reckon it saves me around £150 a year....

Out of interest how does this work? Do you pay the library a fee?

Thanks
Wilksy

[Sortie 10]

With Zinio & Readly, are the magazines downloadable or is it online access? Going abroad soon & thinking about visiting my local library (North Somerset) with my laptop to fill my boots with books but it would be good to download a few car & cycling mags. I don't want to pay foreign data charges.
Thanks for your help - another useful PH topic!

[DoctorX]

Sortie 10 said:

With Zinio & Readly, are the magazines downloadable or is it online access? Going abroad soon & thinking about visiting my local library (North Somerset) with my laptop to fill my boots with books but it would be good to download a few car & cycling mags. I don't want to pay foreign data charges.
Thanks for your help - another useful PH topic!

You can download them. my iPad is now full for my hols thanks to this thread. Saved me a packet at the airport.

[JONSCZ]

Wilksy288 said:

Out of interest how does this work? Do you pay the library a fee?

Thanks
Wilksy

Hi.
As I mentioned on page 1, go and ask your local library - there wont be any charge. You just need a library card number and a password. See here - this is an example for my local library, but others are similar - http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/emagazines

Edited by JONSCZ on Monday 27th July 23:50

[MrBarry123]

Adam B said:

MrBarry123 said:

I pay for the print and digital Evo subscription and find I use the online version far more than I do the print; so much so that the physical magazines are almost pointless for me.

can't you switch to online only and save money then?

Absolutely.

However I'd feel like I'd be missing out if I didn't get the physical magazines.

I'm sure there's some logic there somewhere...

[lauda]

Kermit power said:

Before spending any actual money on a subscription to anything online, I'd suggest you find out what's on offer from your local library first.

Surrey Libraries have loads of magazines for free through Zinio. Amongst others....

Photography Amateur Photographer, Aperture, Digital Camera World, Digital SLR Photography

Cars Auto Express, Top Gear, Classics Monthly, Evo, What Car etc..

News The Economist, Newsweek, Forbes

Cycling Cycling Active, Cycling Plus, Cycling Weekly, Cyclist, MBR, MBUK (and just seen the latest edition is now available whilst checking the titles for posting this. )

Blokes Maxim, Esquire

There's even two different Cross Stitch magazines and a knitting one if that's your thing!

I reckon it saves me around £150 a year....

Thanks for this Chris. Had no idea you could do this but just checked my local council webpage, registered and downloaded a good few weeks worth of reading for nowt!

ETA: and cheers to JONSCZ as well for pointing this out on page 1.

Edited by lauda on Tuesday 28th July 17:10

[Sortie 10]

Just sorted out Zinio via North Somerset Council, you are lucky in Surrey. I can only download about a dozen mags, Auto Express is the only car mag, no cycling, no travel. National Geographic is about the only mag worth downloading. Presumably you are dependent on how much your council stumps up to Zinio.
Not too impressed!

[Kermit power]

Sortie 10 said:

Just sorted out Zinio via North Somerset Council, you are lucky in Surrey. I can only download about a dozen mags, Auto Express is the only car mag, no cycling, no travel. National Geographic is about the only mag worth downloading. Presumably you are dependent on how much your council stumps up to Zinio.
Not too impressed!

Have you got a work address in a different council area you could try signing up from?

[lexham]

What a brilliant thread. For any PH-ers in West Sussex, there are > 100 magazines available via Zinio (as long as you have a library card).
https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/libraries/elibrary/b...

That's saved me money on my Economist subscription and I can dig into New Scientist once again.

[Harris_I]

Just came across this thread, rather annoyingly having just subscribed to Evo. Have been a print subscriber since issue 1 and taken the plunge to go digital only.

Disappointly, Evo appears only to work on Android and Apple, but not PC. I had hoped to read it on my laptop but looks like I am restricted to my phone only. Anyone know if there is a "fix"? (As you can tell, I am not a techy person).

[anonymous-user]

Got one for evo.

[Harris_I]

sleepera6 said:

Got one for evo.

Sorry I have no idea what this means. There is a way to read it on PC? Care to share?

[anonymous-user]

Harris_I said:

sleepera6 said:

Got one for evo.

Sorry I have no idea what this means. There is a way to read it on PC? Care to share?

Oh, I didn't read your post sorry, was answering the OP.
I don't read on PC, don't think it's possible. However, if you have a Mac, iBooks (if it's on MacOS Sierra) should be able to handle it
Otherwise, unfortunately it's portable device only. I'd suggest buying something like a Kindle Fire if you can read it on there?
I read my mags when they come through the post even though I have the digital sub too. Is it just me or does evo have an odd timetable? Its the middle of October and I was sent a February?

Anyway,
HTH

[Harris_I]

sleepera6 said:

Oh, I didn't read your post sorry, was answering the OP.
I don't read on PC, don't think it's possible. However, if you have a Mac, iBooks (if it's on MacOS Sierra) should be able to handle it
Otherwise, unfortunately it's portable device only. I'd suggest buying something like a Kindle Fire if you can read it on there?
I read my mags when they come through the post even though I have the digital sub too. Is it just me or does evo have an odd timetable? Its the middle of October and I was sent a February?

Anyway,
HTH

Thanks sleeper.

It's not just you. The Evo timetable is weird. I think they do it on a 4 week cycle rather than every month which means it's completely out of synch with the calendar year.

Just discovered my local library does loads of mags incl Evo via Zinio - excellent! So that solves the laptop issue. Probably the most useful thread I have read on PH all year....

Having now become an Evo digital reader, I find it rather disappointing that there are no embedded links to online videos and the like. Perhaps it was unreasonable of me to expect an all-singing all-dancing multimedia experience?

[anonymous-user]

Harris_I said:

sleepera6 said:

Oh, I didn't read your post sorry, was answering the OP.
I don't read on PC, don't think it's possible. However, if you have a Mac, iBooks (if it's on MacOS Sierra) should be able to handle it
Otherwise, unfortunately it's portable device only. I'd suggest buying something like a Kindle Fire if you can read it on there?
I read my mags when they come through the post even though I have the digital sub too. Is it just me or does evo have an odd timetable? Its the middle of October and I was sent a February?

Anyway,
HTH

Thanks sleeper.

It's not just you. The Evo timetable is weird. I think they do it on a 4 week cycle rather than every month which means it's completely out of synch with the calendar year.

Just discovered my local library does loads of mags incl Evo via Zinio - excellent! So that solves the laptop issue. Probably the most useful thread I have read on PH all year....

Having now become an Evo digital reader, I find it rather disappointing that there are no embedded links to online videos and the like. Perhaps it was unreasonable of me to expect an all-singing all-dancing multimedia experience?

No problem Harris.
Glad you got the problem resolved.

[Ruskie]

Checked Readly out because of this thread. Signed up and immediately found 23 magazines that I can read but wouldn't necessarily pay £5 for. Absolute bargain to be fair at £7.99.