Forum

[Scribble]

Originally Posted by physics_ninja

Keep in mind that you still have to search *each and every* PDF. In 5 years time, that will be 60 PDFs for Dragon Magazine alone. Double that if the new magic item you're looking for actually appeared in Dungeon Magazine.

yeah but making the computer search them all is much faster. And the computer is better suited to searching then I am. (it can search any word not just those in an index.)

1) In the 20 years that I have subscribed to the magazines I have read them in all kinds of places (sofa, chair, bathroom, before bedtime, on the bus, at a friends) but never, not once, have I read them at the computer.

In the times I bought them, or subscribed to them, I read them the same... Then put them on a shelf and forgot the contents or where the contents were.

3) With printed, twice a month, I got a pleasant surprise in my mailbox. It was a ray of sunshine in my otherwise dreary life. Even when the magazine content was bad, it still made my day better. I really, really miss that.

I get one everyday (for the most part) when the new article pops up.

4) Online content doesn't come to me. I have to go to the WOTC website (assuming its up), enter my password, find the article/issue in question, and finally download it. None of this is paticularly onerous, but it is a far cry from a ray of sunshine.

Point number 4 is the real killer for me. I have realized over the past 10 months (has it been that long?) that I am not interested in hunting down material I have already paid for.

I had to go to the mailbox or mail slot to get the magazine, then flip to te page the article was one.

Just a diferent way of doing things.