New Yorker magazine alert thread

yeah but i do subscribe to the print magazine maybe i can't fuckin have my issue on me at all times sorry new yorker

yah they should hav an iphone app 4 sure

they 'hope to in the future' lol gfy

sittin around looking at butterflies hopin 4 a iphone app

maybe i can't fuckin have my issue on me at all times

tbf it's a fuckin piece of paper; it folds nicely and can be dropped without harm

also get off my fuckin lawn

tbf its many pieces of paper

and staples, sorry

and ink

^overlooked point

also it's like oh i have an hour to kill randomly too bad i can't read on my mobile device said pieces of paper for which btw i paid many other green pieces of paper, but it's all good this is what 1991 now

its more of a dream really

printed on shitty stock tbh

btw I don't get all the complaints about the proper ipad edition, it's up there with the best available imo

the general concept is v good imo, but there are some poorly executed details

On the ipad I find an article, take screenshots and read those from the camera roll.

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:06 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol this is amazing btw

the general concept is v good imo, but there are some poorly executed details

I don't like the way it all lines up down the right-hand side of the screen (in portrait), with a giant glob of white space on the left. Other than that, mostly superb imo.

also it's like oh i have an hour to kill randomly too bad i can't read on my mobile device said pieces of paper for which btw i paid many other green pieces of paper, but it's all good this is what 1991 now

pretty rough maaaan

or for instance if i am away from my apt for an extended period of time and cannot read my issue in print

just get w/ the times NYer srsly

I dont like: no downloading in the background, how each poem listing section etc gets its own spot in the line up kinda clogs up the feed, how large the file sizes are I already had to archive a couple but why, i was listing to an author read a story which is a nice lil feature but when I accidentally swiped away there was no way to restart the audio from where I left off like no lil slider thing at all, feel like the drop down toc isn't descriptive enough like im never sure what the articles are abt could use sub titles, and other stuff like that that could use some refining

no downloading in the background

This might be Adobe's fault (it's built on the Adobe Digital Editions platform, and iirc no ADE apps do auto-downloads) <-- could be 100% wrong on every level

how each poem listing section etc gets its own spot in the line up kinda clogs up the feed

I'm happy to put that down to them learning how best to lay it out (same goes for the right-running text and left-running white space).

how large the file sizes are I already had to archive a couple but why

Yeah I agree, 120–150 Mb per edition is pretty piss-poor. No excuse for that when most of the edition is text and line drawings.

there was no way to restart the audio from where I left off like no lil slider thing at all
feel like the drop down toc isn't descriptive enough like im never sure what the articles are abt could use sub titles

Agreed, in fact you are making me angry with Condé Nast ffs

:)

Okay now I can see how much this app sucks, but I stand by my original point i.e. that it's one of the best publications on the app store. There's some absolute dross out there, most of which either crashes routinely or is just an exact replication of the print edition.

i think the side scroll between articles and then the vertical scrolling to dip into the articles layout concept is p ingenious, like i find myself unconsciously visualizing the whole thing, maybe other magazines use that too idk this is my only ipad subscription - and the typography is good, it v easy to read - like i said the details just need some refinement

i think the side scroll between articles and then the vertical scrolling to dip into the articles layout concept is p ingenious, like i find myself unconsciously visualizing the whole thing

Yeah, that's the Adobe Digital Editions format. Properly briliant. All the Condé Nasts use it, as well as National Geographic and a few others.

Did anyone else find Remnick's review of the latest Obama book sort of ... self-serving in its snide dismissals? Maybe someone who hadn't written their own premature account of the Obamas might have been a better choice?

Just wanted to rep hard for Acocella's dance articles, love those. (But then, I barely know anything about dance.)

Also, I read it almost cover-to-cover -- even the lol theatre reviews -- the only things I regularly skip are the fiction, S&M, and poems. I rarely ever skip a full-on feature, the last two to my mind are IKEA and the execrable David Brooks one.

the latest shouts and murmurs abt romney meeting people is p funny

haven't read it but it is never funny

remember that like, spectrum of gayness one a month or two back? what the hell was that

ya agree re: the romney 1; it was trillin i think, & more brief than usual, i think i smirked or something, home run for s&m

haha i was reading that on the train today, it wasnt funny but it managed 'amusing'.

gopnik's piece on histories of the spanish inquisition is both bizarrely high-handed and scattershot. its somewhat of a feat to have the worst piece in an issue w/ an on and off the ave article

Yknow what the romney thing WAS kinda funny

I'm not sure how amenable you all are to old article alerts but this one about North Korea:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/12/100712fa_fact_demick

Written by Barbara Demick, who also wrote an incredible book about North Korea a couple of years ago. This article is 18 months old, but it throws up an interesting perspective of Kim Jong-eun, and of course it's beautifully written.

v amenable to old article alerts btw, the never particularly active 'what should i read in the nyer archives' thread was a goldmine

i have the demick book sat on my shelf, maybe i should read my way into it via the article

You must. The book is more a series of narratives based on factual accounts, but every bit as absorbing.

btw this week's youtube piece is everything we already know about youtube, but packaged concisely and within the context of a changing broadcast industry. I hate the end of that last sentence but got sick of trying to reword it so

utube piece was ok, can't wait to see how awful all the shows turn out

The Jay-Z lifestyle station! Shaq TV!

utube piece was ok, can't wait to see how awful all the shows turn out

― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 January 2012 04:56 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If recent Google initiatives are any indication, this is otm

the shows are gonna be awful no doubt but considering what awful stuff is popular on youtube it still might 'succeed'

for the little chunk of change they dropped (in google terms), they just need like one annoying orange success to make this thing worthwhile

hahahahaha yes

something like the creative success of "autotune the news"

i dunno how paid the gregory brothers are but it's clearly doing well enough for them that they don't need a day job

youtube piece really annoyed me, using "they're turning away from user-generated content!" as bait and then not really backing it up. it's not like people aren't going to be able to post cat videos.

cat videos are illegal under SOPA fyi

any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this content without the express written consent of cats is prohibited

i'm actually still half a page away from finishing it but the elif batuman piece on the hunter gatherer monuments, from the last double issue, is amazing, huh

talk of the town david cross piece is super bizarre

David cross is sort of disturbing

All I know is that the issue with a whopping four pieces I read was followed by an issue where barely anything appealed to me: youtube, on and off the avenue, Remnick review, S F-J stupid essay ... is the LA mogul piece any good? Egyptian novelist?

I liked the la mogul piece