With mine, win7 , there is an option to look at what is down loaded offline. It brings up a warning, but only means that while offline, new content can not be downloaded.So instead of choosing yes, I click NO, then it opens to a blank screen.I goto downloads and then can read the downloaded magazines.

I regret not getting the printed version. The digital version is not as user friendly as I would have hoped for or liked.

Neil

Tony,

I've recently replaced my laptop, running Win 8.1, installed the pocketmags offline reader and downloaded all of my mags.

To test, I've just switched off my wifi and loaded the app, I get a warning about not being connected, clicked yes to work offline and I could read all of my downloaded content.

The digital mags are convenient for a quick read but I still subscribe to the paper copy as well for all the reasons John cited.

CB

Part of the value of subscription WAS the online archive.

I am lead to believe that this online achive has ceased.

I shall consider whether the value of subscription meets the price.

As a MEW subscriber and estimating that ( sure soneone has the figures too hand) the saving of subscribing is say 1/3 rd it would only take 4 edition a year to not buy to break even ( if you see what I mean)

Shame really. ..I think the mew is currently at its best for some time…

Edited By jason udall on 01/09/2014 13:21:47

Ok.

THE FREE ONLINE ACHIVE has ceased

Bill, I'm not defending MTM in any way (no connection etc. except for a paper only sub!) but could I urge you to just call or email them? I run a subscription service (for something completely unrelated) and there's nothing worse than a dissatisfied subscriber 'being patient' and then several weeks later contacting you with steam coming out of their ears because you haven't done something you were entirely unaware they were waiting for! As you say the order processing is going to be completely automatic, and no human will likely be aware that you're missing a sub number. Only if you let them know there is a problem can they sort it out.

Edited By Bikepete on 01/09/2014 15:04:39

I fear that I might be about to shoot myself in the foot, but here goes, anyway …….

i am a paper-only subscriber to MEW and , like others, have recently lost the facility to view past issues via the forum link. Of course, I knew this was coming about and started to download the archive, page by page, using cutepdf printer utility. My goodness, that took a long time per issue and I eventually lost the will to live and gave up! I also have an app on my iPad which accesses the archive and, so far, this is still working for me. I'm sorry, I can't for the life of me remember where I got it from, but it must have been from the app store. If the OP has an iPad too, maybe he can get at the archive this way?

John

Neil,

I hear what you say and it doesn't conflict with what has occurred. However, it doesn't explain how I (and others in the same situation) can still access the archive through the "old" iPad app. I've done a bit more digging and there is reference to the app in a thread on the forum entitled "using subscription on MEW app on I pad" (sic). It appears that this app is no longer available from the iPad store, just the reader, from, presumably, the publishers, which charges per issue.  So I'll continue to access the back issues this way until such time as the facility is stopped.

John

Edited By John Hinkley on 01/09/2014 16:49:23

Actually, the viewer that was used when the archive was first put in place did allow printing and what's more, allowed printing of the whole issue in one go. The publishers soon got nervous about that for obvious reasons and replaced the viewer with (an earlier release of) the current one, which only allows printing one page at a time, in an effort to make printing (to pdf) more difficult and therefore less attractive other than for short sections.

But printing of some kind was always an option.

John Alexander Stewart posted: "You can go into the wilderness of Canada and read them."

Gee, we're not that bad… are we?

Ok then, here's what I do!!!

I get a paper copy. Always have, always will. Space wise, I have a couple of shelves for the mags in the garage. The mags themselves are stored inside old large breakfast cereal cartons suitably cut. When I receive a copy, I read it, and then copy into the computer any, not many actually, articles which might be applicable to my admittedly narrow range of interests. I also have a home-made database into which I enter brief details of most of the articles.

What this means is that I can either find a copy on the computer and then print it out, backs of old A4 envelopes or those adverts that come through the letterbox, you know, the ones with a clean reverse side, are useful here. If I haven't already got it on the computer, then a search through the database, followed by retrieving the original and printing as above.

Which means that I don't need to bother about downloading, storage in the cloud, subscriptions, or whatever since I always have the original.

And by the way, the database is an old, ancient, obsolete, DOS based database known as Masterfile Professional which can be made to work very well under Windows XP, which in turn is running as a guest system on a Linux machine. Copying of articles is done by scanning and saving as a JPG under Linux now, but originally via Paint Shop Pro under Windows XP & 2000.

Smugly yours (!!!),

Peter G. Shaw

Thanks Neil for this info as stated elsewhere I am not happy with the quality of Pocketmags digital edition visually.

The statements here by some who have already pointed if using older win versions it may become impossible to transfer the digital copies downloaded to later win versions. Just try opening some old original Win Office files, thank goodness for Wordperfect Office.

However all may not be lost for those using older Win versions I have not done it yet but locating the storage folder and doing whats needed to transfer to new system.

I wonder also if in saving the files and software to a USB stick or external HDD maybe the best option that way its always portable.

Ray