just what advantage does one get with a digital paid forum? magazine, me i would rather hold it in my hand and look at it than have it on a laptop, so digital magazine has no benefit, but forum??
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While I prefer to hold a magazine when I am relaxing and reading, I have a digital subscription and use it more than the printed versions. I have access to dozens of back issues and can search through them to pull out the particularly how-to article I want, or look at a specific layout I recall. I suppose I could keep a big pile of old magazines at home, but no, I need the closet for more important things - like storing toy trains.
AndI always get the digital version first, by a few days to a week . . .
Also it just seems to be a good way to support the forum. This is a wellrun forum that provides a lot of "value" to me, and its superiority over others I have used in the past is probably rather expensive to maintain. I pay something like $25 a year for the digital subscriptions and it goes into the pot that keeps OGR healthy and working.
Advantages...
- Supports OGR and the Forum
- Digital Extras
- No piles of magazines
- Access to past issues
- A snazzy "Digital Subscriber" title
- Ed Boyle's Digital Shorts...Lazy Sunday late afternoon call Allan Miller to see what to do!"
- All available on my iPad and all portable. I've called up a few articles on the fly while out.
seem to be in the wrong century!!!
supports ogr and the forum, well you might have me there, but i do subscribe to magazine that has to count (and i enjoy it) (heck even my wife goes thru it sometimes)
my phone has wires coming out of it
my tablet is yellow and has lines
i have one recalcitrant PC that gets head slapped now and then
"A snazzy "Digital Subscriber" title" not even sure what that is
every year i take my O guage copies and my NRA American Riflemen to the Navy Hosp and they pass them out to the guys The American Red Cross runs this and they tell me the railroad magazines are the most popular
my portable is a stack in the john, all dog eared and well read
Marty,
You hit it on the nose. And speaking of noses, with Digital you can blow up the pics to see the finer details instead of bringing the magazine closer to your nose to see them. And those digital extras you mentioned are some pretty good additional pictures of the featured layouts!
John
