#209 - new look

MEW 209 landed in my letterbox today. Those which also got it up to now will see it's got a 'new look'. I'm not too sure if it is better or worse, others will perhaps express their judgment better than I can. So who really needs 1 and a half page of contents?

But that's not my most important concern. What I really miss is the yellow issue number in the upper left corner of the front page. How can we pull out a certain issue from a large stack when the issue number is hidden somewhere on the right margin of the page? This change is a big no-no, my dear Designer!

Greetings, Hansrudolf

(bold and cursive seems not to work today

If it aint broke dont fix it, sorry

Hans, that's how I sort my issues out. I sometimes have to remove the price sticker that my newsagent has plastered over the issue number (methylated spirit works). Definitely a big no-no. Where do they hire these people?

Regards from the land of the kangaroo

* Danny M

ps. for Bold And Cursive, write your submission in MS 'Word' and paste it, very handy for stuff like °C, € and ¼ etc.

Once again they should be one magazine not two. Mags were better in the 80's and before so I only buy it when I see something in them that interests me.

Bri

Well you've ruined my Sunday morning. Here come the complaints.. let the hand-wringing and subscription cancelling begin.

Without change ME would still be 8" tall and 24 black and white pages.

Neil

Neil don't forget it should also cost 1d

Looks like it even the digital issues don't like it as its not in the archive yet??

Edited By JasonB on 20/10/2013 09:48:58

How would that remove the sticker ?

Problem is now there are two mags and people are used to them. ME is mainly staem and loco's, MEW is tools.

Now if they were incorporated again because of costs the sizes would remain the same so that means content would be split and that's where dummies would be get throw out the prams.

The MEW boys would be moaning about choo-choo's, the ME boys would be moaning about lack of choo-choo's because there is no pleasing all.

So half of ME readers would threaten to cancel, half of MEW readers would threaten to cancel and at the first inclusion of a CNC article the rest would do the same

Personally I feel that if routers and 3D printers were included and that is where the future lies, then there is scope for a dedicated CNC mag but probably only 3 / 4 times per year at the moment.

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Unfortunately, it appears that some of the better toolmaking articles are in ME.

... exceptions that prove the rule, I suppose.

MichaelG.

I'm really pleased there are 2 magazines one for tools one for steam I buy both excellent

magazines keep up the good work.

That really angers me when you go in WH Smiths and see people blocking up

the gangway reading the magazines with no intent of buying all magazines should be sealed

why should someone buy a magazine which has got a load of thumb prints on it

Edited By Martin Walsh 1 on 20/10/2013 10:58:57

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I used to spend many a happy lunch-break in the WHS Reading-Room; but the place has got so ugly [with gaudy advertising] that I can't bear to enter !!

MichaelG.

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P.S. ... Sounds like you need to subscribe to the Mags.

I am glad you have received your MEW.

As a digital subscriber I am still stuck with issue #208. I guess the newsagents in the high street has the latest issue.

JA

Mine hasn't even arrived yet.

Well I prefer the two mags. I usually find something of interest in MEW and have most copies from issue 1 - although I am maybe more selective recently. I sometimes pick up ME but there do tend to be long running series there which are of little interest to me as is, I find, the whole "club" related scene.

As far as the location of the issue number goes, the top left hand corner of the cover is the most convenient for me as mine are filed vertically on bookshelves, spine outwards, and it is quick and to find a particular issue that way. I agree therefore that moving the number elsewhere is inconvenient and probably not properly thought through by the designer ( who may, of course, not be a reader of the magazine!) However I'll try not to get too stressed about it - after all how difficult is it to buy a pack of self adhesive paper labels and stick one of those on!

Norman

The new layout doesn't bother me one way or the other. If anyone is really inconvenienced by the number being on the right they will find that sticky labels are very cheap.

I was pleased with the content this time. Well balanced and a bit of everything. Thanks David.

Russell.

I believe alt-keypad codes work here too.

You're are lucky to have got 209 already, the official date is the 25th, well according to issue 208 that is!

Edited By V8Eng on 20/10/2013 19:39:04

For many years I subscribed to ME but when MEW came along I dropped ME and only buy when it contains something to interest me. I notice now that with the change to this site we can no longer browse the contents page of the magazines as before so I guess that I will have to join the thumbing brigade at WHS

Click on the magazine image at the top of the page and then click view contents which comes up below the enlarged front cover, like this for ME. MEW comes straight up with contents like this

Edited By JasonB on 20/10/2013 20:55:59

Tried that, still does not work.Windows needing to go online to find the programme so I just gave up. Dont want another load of rubbish downloads to clutter up my computer

Must be a bit of a PITA not being able to read any PDF files.