Notes on The Complete New Yorker DVDs

I don't subscribe to the New Yorker because it's way too much for me to deal with every week. What am I going to do with 80 years' worth?

• The abstacts are very detailed and worth reading themselves.
• There's no full text search.
• You can't copy text from the articles.
• The biggest barrier to writing is reading.
• Switching DVDs is quaint - very 1980s, but it sure would be nice if all this were available on the web. I wonder at their decision not to do that.
• The package and book are printed and manufactured in China.
• The up arrow icon in the upper left of the frame ejects the DVD. That's useful to know.
• Search of the complete archive is slow and it can't be interrupted.
• There's no text search within the abstracts. I have to copy and past the text into WordPad and search it there.
• No tags, but at least an item can be in more than one reading list.
• Over four thousand issues, almost half a million pages.
• Stacked into a cube more than five feet on a side.
  

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