The ugly garbage rears it’s disgusting head again in the E mails. with more and more of us on mac computers it is unpardonable.
I do think it is awesome that another magazine is around I would like to know why the NLS will not do more than just qst though. i an se a future when all magazines are accessible on a tablet, and the els stops producing them entirely, which is both good and bad. I think that there would be something lost, and a lot of us would no longer read most magazines.  I for example would not read analog if I had to listen to a text synthesizer for 20 hours per issue or more.

Michael Thurman
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On Sep 3, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Buddy Brannan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When Jim, KY2D, got written up in the February CQ Magazine, well, that =
> was pretty cool.
> 
> Except, I thought, common wisdom was that Zinio, the platform that CQ =
> uses for their electronic magazine, was not accessible.=20
> 
> Well, some of Zinio=E2=80=99s magazines may not be (I subscribed to a =
> dog magazine that seems to not be), but I=E2=80=99m happy to report that =
> CQ is pretty readable with the Zinio app for iThingies.
> 
> This doesn=E2=80=99t mean it=E2=80=99s perfect, but it=E2=80=99s doable =
> with a bit of patience.=20
> 
> For example, select the text table of contents button. The labels should =
> make sense. Then, select an article by double tapping it, then double =
> tapping the =E2=80=9CRead=E2=80=9D button.=20
> 
> You can then use the usual two finger swipe down to start continuous =
> reading of the article.=20
> 
> Here=E2=80=99s where things are a little odd. If you stop reading, =
> you=E2=80=99ll have to scroll down pages until you get back to your =
> stopping point, because if not, you=E2=80=99ll be at the top of the =
> article again.=20
> 
> Also, to get back to the table of contents, double tap the title of the =
> article at the top of the screen, then explore the screen at the bottom =
> to find the TOC_Text button to get back to the table of contents.=20
> 
> I=E2=80=99ve just started playing with this today. I subscribed back at =
> the ARRL convention, but my subscription didn=E2=80=99t go active until =
> today. Had to call CQ to get that worked out, i think they might have =
> accidentally lost it or something.=20
> 
> Anyway, at the ARRL convention, Rich let me turn Voiceover on on his =
> iPhone to see if articles would read. When I saw they did, I took the =
> calculated risk of subscribing.=20
> 
> So far, I really like CQ. It=E2=80=99s a ham radio magazine written in =
> English. There=E2=80=99s something to interest just about everyone, too. =
> And $27/year doesn=E2=80=99t seem unreasonable to me.=20
> 
> =E2=80=94=20
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: 814-860-3194=20
> Mobile: 814-431-0962
> Email: [log in to unmask]