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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5412181" data-attributes="member: 8835">As a software dev, it's kind of sad that this kind of thing is still a problemEach Article should have an ArticleID, just as each user has a UserID.  A simple table of allowed user and Article IDs that is added to as new content is created, or some fun date checking to look at your subscription dates and the article dates) would easily allow for your account to always let you get access to content you paid for.Given that I just got off tech support with Borders.com for essentially the same problem (My wife bought 5 ebooks, and it shows only 1 in their eLibrary, and their computer system can't look up order numbers).  They actually wanted my credentials to login to our account and look for themselves..If you had a past sub, and can't get your content now.  The simplest thing is to sub for a short time, and download everything you had access to and/or more.Code-wise, if they've already got a download page as PDF, it shouldn't be that hard to loop through all the pages and pack them in (I wrote that code in a few hours...)PS.  If you have Adobe Professional, I have code to download a page as .htm, and then convert it to PDF, as well as append it to an existing PDF.  Very short functions, very useful.  Requires Adobe Pro for the DLLs to manipulate PDFs (mainly their content conversion library is better than I've found anywhere else).  PDF appending, is pretty easy, PDFSharp is a free .NET libary that can do it.I would not advise doing a short-sub to Enworld, just to strip mine them.  It'd almost be cool if En-World could release older content over time to subscribers (kind of like a double-bonus, each month, you get a new thing, and access to an old thing).  it would sort of prevent someone from buying a 1 month sub every 2 yearrs, just to content scrape.</blockquote>

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