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If you’re looking for free magazines, look no further, Mygazines.com has a huge collection of free magazines all made available in digital format, the best part is, no third party software is required because it is in flash format.
Mygazines is a place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community. The only drawback is the horrible search engine, 9 out of 10 times, the results returned by Mygazines.com are irrelevant.
- Reader’s Digest
- Better Homes And Gardens
- National Geographic Magazine
- Good Housekeeping
- Ladies’ Home Journal
- Time Magazine
- Woman’s Day
- Family Circle
- People magazine
- TV Guide
- Sports Illustrated
- Newsweek
Speed dial mode, thumbnail of all the pages and with a click of a mouse it will display the page in full resolution to fit your screen.
Animated flip page feature, browse to the next page with a click of a mouse.
Is this legal? well, for the moment Mygazine.com is facing law suits filed by various magazine company, and this is what Mygazine.com has to say regarding the court case.
The Mygazines site said in a July 29 press release announcing its launch that its copies are no different from magazines shared in a doctor’s office or salon.
I guess the internet has become a digital piracy playground.
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Here is a little tutorial on how to read 20 different magazines for free legally online, yes, you heard me loud and clear, it is totally legal. The pro and cons of this free service are:
- No subscription charges
- Only requires Firefox or Safari browser
- Its free and the content is the same
- High resolution images for easy reading
- Not all issues are up to date, usually a month or two behind the actual release
Now, I bet you must be wondering why they are making these magazines available for free? Magazine publishers do not make a single dime from printing magazines, in fact, they’re subsidizing the magazine so that it is affordable to everyone, what they want in return are eyeballs, the more circulation they have they more advertising dollars they get, simple as that. The following titles are available for free:
- Reader’s Digest
- Macworld
- Macworld Espanol
- PC Magazine
- Technology Review
- Lonely Planet
- Outside
- Popular Photography
- Saveur
- US News and World Report
- Men’s Health
- Kiplingers
- Popular Mechanics
- Car and Driver
- Viv
- Elle
- Playboy
- Penthouse
What is the catch? Truth is, there are none. Zinio is a company that sells the soft copy version of almost every magazines available in the market for half the price. Currently they’re giving out free magazines to iPhone users, and in order to read these magazines for free using your laptop or desktop, you’ll need to tell the website that you’re browser (user agent) is an iPhone. Here goes:
Apple Safari Browser
Step 1 – Go to ‘Edit’ then ‘Preferences’
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Step 2 – A new Window/Dialog box will pop up, under the advance tab, check the ’show develop menu in menu bar’
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Step 3 – a new menu (develop) will appear in the menu bar, select ‘Develop’ then ‘User Agent’ and finally change the user agent to ‘mobile safari 1.1.3 – iPhone’
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Step 4 – Visit www.zinio.com/iphone for the free magazines.
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Mozilla Firefox 3 Browser
For firefox user, install User Agent Switcher plugin, this plugin will adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of Firefox, simply change the user agent to iPhone and visit the following url – www.zinio.com/iphone
Download the entire magazine for offline reading
Digital Quest has a cool tutorial on how to browse the magazine offline, no hack or crack or any pirated software needed, just a simple and legal tools available, think out of the box. How to download magazines from Zinio.
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