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Robert George19/02/2010 18:39:09
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Hi David,
 
I subscribed to the Model Engineering Workshop Digital Archive on December 19, 2009, but I *still* don't have access to the archive.

The MyHobbyStore web page indicates that you don't need a Model Engineering Workshop (paper) subscription, but when I log into my account on:

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/members/digitaleditions/

I get the following message:

Subscriber Only Content

Sorry, this is Subscriber-only content...

Some of the content on our site can only be accessed by magazine subscribers. We do not currently have a record of a subscription number associated with this account. If you are currently a subscriber, please register your subscription number* in your member profile.

* Your subscriber number can be found on your original confirmation letter and email as well as on all of envelopes containing your magazine

The irony is that I *did* renew my Model Engineering Workshop subscription with ExpressMag on January 12, but have yet to receive an issue.

Could you please activate my account for both the Model Engineering Workshop Digital Archive and the subscriber-only material?

Thanks,


Robert

David Clark 119/02/2010 20:04:17
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Hi Robert I can't activate your subscription.
You need a subscriber number to do this.
When you purchased the digital editions you should have been enailed a subscription number.
regards david
 
Robert George19/02/2010 20:16:35
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Thanks David -- that did the trick!
 
Owen20/02/2010 02:40:04
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Well Robert all I can say is "aren't you lucky". I've been trying to get access to the back issues for a couple of weeks with no luck. E-mails to customer service go unanswered or worse still just put off. I'm pretty well fed up with this outfit.
Owen
Circlip20/02/2010 11:58:50
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Owen, I feel that you're doing the management an injustice.Their predecessors were noted for not getting it right on the paper copy deliveries, so you really need to wait a few years cos of the black arts of electronickery
 
 
  Regards  Ian.
David Clark 120/02/2010 14:22:56
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Hi Owen
Email me direct at
Then we can get it sorted.
regards david
Robert George20/02/2010 15:21:22
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Owen, it's somewhat confusing, but the "trick" is what David mentioned (that they didn't explain on MyHobbyStore): there's a numeric code in the confirmation email you get when you sign-up for the Digital Archives.
 
Open up that email, and write down the 8 digit code.
 
Now click on the member profile link here:
 
http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/members/details.asp
 
Toward the bottom there's a "Subscriber Numbers" section -- add the 8 digit code to the box that says "Model Engineers' Workshop Archive Subscription."
 
Make sure to click the "SAVE" button at the bottom, and now try to access the digital archives here:
 
http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/members/digitaleditions/
 
Now if only I could get my paper subscription to Model Engineering Workshop that I paid for 6 weeks ago, I'd be happy

By the way -- hey Ian!  I'm Lazlo.  Buy Sir John a pint for me

 
 
 
 
 

Edited By Robert George on 20/02/2010 15:22:24

Owen20/02/2010 18:51:16
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Hi Robert
Its a paper subscription that I,m on so I got my subscription number by e-mail from them. I've sent an e-mail to David as requested above so we'll see.
Hi Circlip
There are more issues then just the website, A long story I'm not going into here the topics have been put forward on other threads by other people with no results so I'm pretty sure I'm not doing the management an injustice. It seems that the only one working there is David, he can't do it all.
Owen23/02/2010 18:08:15
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suddenly today I can access the digital back issues, Thank you David.
Terryd25/05/2010 05:56:54
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Hi,
 
Re The 'free' Digital Issues of MEW available to subscribers. 
 
Today when I visited this section there was only one page of issues (back to no 146).  I'm sure that there used to be three pages back to around issue 122 or thereabouts, or am I suffering early onset dementia?. 
 
Have these other pages been removed? Or is there just a problem in accessing them and will access be restored or is there a new policy on access we haven't been informed of?   Has anyone else had a problem accessing the 'free' issues?
 
Terry

Edited By Terryd on 25/05/2010 05:57:24

AndyP25/05/2010 11:51:58
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The goalposts were moved - the digital subscription now goes to issue 145.
 
Andy
Geoff Anstey25/05/2010 12:39:05
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When I subscribe to the Archive edition I was able to view the magazine and print out stories that could be read whilst not sitting infront of the computer. I have recently logged on to find that the 'eMag Creater' i.e viewer is now different and I am no longer able to print these out.
 
 
Terryd25/05/2010 21:35:34
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Posted by AndyP on 25/05/2010 11:51:58:
The goalposts were moved - the digital subscription now goes to issue 145.
 
Andy
 
That's sad. Just to increase income I expect, well they won't get mine now, I'll find another way round it.
 
Terry
Chris Banninger28/05/2010 10:55:17
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With previous version of MEW digital archive I could easily print pages, to keep a paper copy of my favourite articles to read even without having to be connected to Internet, nor having to carry back my laptop. With the new magazine player now I couldn''t, is there any fixes? I''ll be glad if digital issues will came in *.pdf format, it will be fantastic to keep a copy on hard disk of entire collection!

Many thanks

 

Luca

Posted By Luca Rossi on 28/05/2010 09:18:29.
 
 
Hi Luca,
 

- download the free open source software "PDFcreator" and install on your computer
- open it's PDF Print Monitor window
- go to the ME digital archive and open any magazine
- print the cover page. A window PDFFCreator 0.9.9 will pop up.DO NOT hit the "Save" button, hit the "Wait-Collect" button instead. The printed page will appear as a line entry in the PDF Print Monitor window
- skip uninteresting advertisement pages, print all pages with real content, each printed page will show as an added line in the PDF Print Monitor Window. I found I have to wait until a page is loaded, before printing it, otherwise the eMAGcreator software will hang up.
- when finished, press the menu icon "Combine All" on top of the "PDF Print Monitor" window. The program now takes some time to compile all pages that you printed into one single document.
- when finished, press the menu icon for "Print".
 
You now have created a .pdf file that contains the WHOLE MAGAZINE (less the advertiser pages if you choose to skip them. It does not take much longer than it did with the old reader. But you cannot let it print in the background and do something else, you have to be there and press "print" for every page you wanted. On the plus side, the .pdf files created are smaller and the resolution just as good as before, and you can skip the useless advertiser pages. Moral of the story for the magazine management: where there is a will, there is always a workaround. Especially when they try to change rules less than halfway into a subscription, which was not a fair thing to do. They should be happy that they can sell us the old magazines for a second time as a digital edition. Expecting us to pay once more for every year we enjoy to look at the digital edition is just pushing it a little too far for me. I honestly think it will not work, because it makes us all feel ripped off.
Chris
Gone Away31/05/2010 01:32:42
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Chris,  (no matter how you, I or anyone else feels about it) MHS has signaled in no uncertain terms their intention to limit significant copying of the digital archives. May I suggest that, under those circumstances, publicly describing a method of circumventing their restrictions, while showing us how much you know, is not perhaps the smartest thing in the world from any side's point of view. I imagine you ticked off quite a few members with that post.
 

Edited By Sid Herbage on 31/05/2010 01:35:32

John Stevenson31/05/2010 09:53:24
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But how many have been ticked off by the bait and switch method employed by MHS.
 
We all had a chance to download one demo copy of the mag to see what you were getting before you paid.
 
In my case I liked what I saw and paid up promptly, in a few months time my yearly subscription will expire and because of the new Emag software I will not be renewing, just my take on this.
 
I do have all the paper copies from issue 1 and have religiously bought them but having access to the digital copies AS PERSONAL PDF's when I don't have access to internet connection is worth the £29 annual payment.
 
Chris's method will not work for me other than a few pages because Flash causes my computer to run slowly with an error message saying a script is not working on the page and after stacking about 8 or 9 pages it crashes the computer.
 
I only have one computer that will run Flash as I flatly refuse to have any Adobe software on the other machines as they are complete resource hogs.
If the original software would have required Flash I would definitely NOT have bought it.
 
All that will happen now is that previously downloaded copies of the mag as PDF's will do the rounds as bootleg copies because of the problem, something they are working hard to  stop.
 
 
The best way to attend to this problem is to sell the DVD's at reasonable cost.
MHS answer to this is that they will finish up on Ebay but after a few block attempts it will stop, they did it with JRE's yahoo articles.
Proof of this is the mag's that are on DVD at the moment like Fine Woodworking, it's not on rapid share and not on Ebay
 
John S.
Gone Away31/05/2010 14:27:35
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I don't disagree with anything you've said, John which is why I included the disclaimer "no matter how you, I or anyone else feels about it".

With respect to the original viewing software (which I thought was flash-based incidentally - at least I used to get the occasional flash errors on my machine) Personally,  I inferred from day one that it was done that way (rather than as pdf's like most of the other material) to deter people from making offline copies. I was also sure that at least some people would realise there was a way around that. Of course, I also assumed those people would be smart enough not to rub MHS's nose in it publicly  .... I was sure wrong about that! The result was predictable.

Re:
 
"MHS answer to this is that they will finish up on Ebay but after a few block attempts it will stop, they did it with JRE's yahoo articles".
 
It would be nice to think so but "eBay", which is cooperative in blocking copyright violations, is just an example. There are other avenues which it is much less feasible to control.

Edited By Sid Herbage on 31/05/2010 14:30:13

Fred Miller01/06/2010 08:16:11
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Hi everybody with a MEW Digital Archive gripes. Is that true it only goes to 146 ? I thought it was just one of the many problems I always get on MEW website. I payed me money but can only get to 146 onward and I've got all them on paper issues. When I have a look at the ones you can get, it takes for ever to get a page first its a plain white and you wait ages for it to come up if I wanted to see the whole issue it would take hours.  The whole website is like this some times it takes 4-5 minutes just to get started, and trying to go from item to another some times is impossiable. Even this letter is a second attempt , yesterday I hit  "Add Posting"  the 'indicator' went around and around and in the end  the the computer window came up "Window Explorer cannot read this website" I do not have these problems with other advertised websites (Chronos, ArcEuroTrading ect ect,). I know Australia is a longway from Orpington and my computer is a bit old but there must be somene out there who can find an answer to these problems.  FRED.  

Edited By Fred Miller on 01/06/2010 08:20:53

John Stevenson01/06/2010 09:04:57
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Can't really answer your question on this Fred but this site is the worst one I visit as regards opening, time taken to load etc,
When I return to a page the back arrow has to be pressed twice, the first time does nothing and it's been this way all thru.
 
I have all the adverts and flashing images switched off. I know this rather defeats the object of taking paid advertising but the operators of this site won't listen to readers issues.
 
John S.
Circlip01/06/2010 12:50:28
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Which Issue John?? 23, 57 or 88.05.63.01A
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