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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)
| Title | The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) |
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| Date | 2025-04-19 10:13:37 |
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Desciption
EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUEON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS. A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine.What has the New Yorker said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing, Winston Churchill, Citizen Kane, the invention of television, the Cold War, baseball, the lunar landing, Willem de Kooning, Madonna, the internet, and 9/11?Eighty years of The New Yorker offers a detailed, entertaining history of the life of the city, the nation, and the world since 1925. Every article, every cartoon, every illustration, every advertisement, exactly as it appeared on the printed page, in full color. Flip through full spreads of the magazine to browse headlines, art work, ads, and cartoons, or zoom in on a single page, for closer viewing. Print any pages or covers you choose, or bookmark pages with your own notes. Our powerful search environment allows you to home in on the pieces you want to see. Our entire history is catalogued by date, contributor, department, and subject. 4, 109 ISSUES. HALF A MILLION PAGES. YOURS TO SEARCH AND SAVOR. Read more
Review
The good . . .For those of us who love the New Yorker, what bliss to see, under the masthead of the first issue, the names: Marc Connelly, George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woolcott... We know we're home.The bad . . .[nothing]The ugly . . .As for most of the complaints, as the saying goes, RTFM (Read the f. manual)!1. First, for PC users, you have to have Microsoft .NET Framework installed. If it isn't, your PC should install it automatically. If .NET Framework isn't installed, then you won't be a able to install the viewing program and access the DVDs.2. The search database includes only the article abstracts and not the articles themselves. The magazines were scanned by hand. Because the artwork is a big part of the magazine, facsimilies were desired, so OCR would not have been feasable. (It would have been possible, but because of the mixed media it would have meant a huge increase in time and expense, and a big price hike.)3. The packaging says 1024 x 768 MINIMUM screen resolution required. This is typical resolution for laptops and renders a highly readable screen. It is not, as some have complained, hard to read. However, the optimal screen resolution is 1600 x 1200, which most desktops should have. If you have a laptop that can do 1600 x 1200, use this setting.4. The response is slow, because it is working off the DVD disks, not the hard drive.5. The missing issues are available for free download at archive.newyorker.com.6. The set will be updated and upgraded every year. Just register at the above address.Ok, I do have a wish list. Yes, it would be nice to have a fully indexed database for searches. Yes, it would be nice to be able to transfer the complete set onto the hard drive. Remember, though, that these are graphic scans, not text files, so the data to be transfered from eight DVDs would be enormous. (At 4.7GB per disk, that's over 35GB!)Until then, luxuriate in the most delicious archive - and one of the best values - in publishing history. By the way, for you organization freaks, The New Yorker, for most of its history, had no table of contents. I bet most of us who love this magazine skip the contents. It's like the difference between ordering your dinner from a menu or saying to the gourmet chef, "Just surprise me!"
