Digital subscription query

Hello,

I bought this month's MEW as I scanned the contents in the shop there were a few articles that took my interest: Myford metric thread cutting, building an injection moulding machine & setting up a new workshop.

Unfortunately two of these were part 2 or 3 of the series of articles. I often find that articles that are spread into different parts do not follow consecutively in magazines, I guess either to be more varied or because the correspondent writes them as and when they undertake the project.

My question is - If I have a digital subscription is there an easy way to access and find series of articles of a certain subject? Or do I have to trawl through the back issues and buy the specific one? If this is the case do I need a subscription at all?

Also is there any way of knowing how many parts a certain article is going to last?

Cheers

If you buy a digital or Paper Plus subscription to MEW via Myhobbystore (not via news stand) then you will get online access to all back issues of MEW while your subscription is active. Though there is no easy way to sort through recent ones you can use the various online archives to find out what issues a series ran in during the period the indexes cover.

No easy way to tell when any current series will end.

J

Edited By JasonB on 17/03/2014 16:08:30

In ME (under the title of the article in the magazine - not in contents) it tells you that the article is continued from page xxx of issue xxx volume xxx ..... I assume MEW is the same.

Dave

In MEW we do our best to run series concurrently, there is an index published every twelve issues and the next issue will have the index for issues 201 to 212 in it.

All three of the articles you mention have been published 'end to end'.

Traditionally ME published articles every other issue for many years. David Clark phased this out, but Diane is reintroducing it. The argument is that it allows greater variety of content in a fortnightly magazine (and lets long series writers have a chance to keep up!)

There are various indexes for each magazine available on line or on CD, with different pros and cons, that you might use. Also, if you get really stuck either ask on here or if you get really stuck email me at [email protected] (within reason!)

Neil

My mistake, I must have not checked the contents thoroughly enough. I think the hobby store on-line subscription is best for me to get the most out of the mags.

Cheers

Hi Neil I started publishing every issue as many readers like to have the whole series in hand before starting a project. Also every issue publishing encourages people to buy every issue of a series and the chances are they will start reading another series before the first one ends and continue to buy it regularly.

It also encourages readers to subscribe if they know there will be a continuing series of interest.

Hello Frances,

The digital 'PC' offline subscription reader is Windows based www.model-engineer.co.uk/editorial/page.asp?p=1031

You can read issues covered by your subscription online with pocketmags but unless you have one of the platforms HERE you won't be able to use an offline reader.

Anything with a reasonably up to date web browser can access the online archive. Older online archive issues have been scanned from paper issues so aren't as good as more recent issues created from PDF, but in my opinion they are all perfectly readable.

Here's a screenshot of ia page from Issue one, from the archive. I have cropped it to 1024 pixels wide so that if you right click it and choose 'view image' and you should see it at the same resolution as it will display when you zoom into the page on the archive viewer.

Neil

NO ... The magazine archive accessed via the "magazines" tab are NOT PDF's and can't be read by a pdf reader, nor can they be downloaded. These are ALL the issues from 2002 onwards.

They need a web browser to read them i.e Internet explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc. I'm not sure if there is a sample anywhere.

A few of the very old issues/articles have been scanned and these are available as pdf's.

Dave

Edited By Steambuff on 15/09/2015 18:30:32

It's Java based, not flash. It is basically just an online image viewer with an index facility.

Neil