Good content bad app
The New Yorker is an excellent magazine, the articles are always very interesting. However the iPad app is very buggy and makes enjoying the magazine much more difficult than it should be. Often it stops in the middle of downloading a magazine and it is not clear how to restart it again. Sometimes "loses" a magazine from the library when "checking for updates". There is no easy way to view just a list of the magazines you have downloaded to the iPad, you have to browse down a long list of all the magazines that have ever existed to find older ones you have downloaded. The reader doesnt seem able to remember where you are in a magazine if you flip to one of the others for a while. There no way of making bookmarks to articles you liked. You can delete magazines you dont want to keep (and download them again for free later, which I like) but there is no way of keeping any individual articles you found interesting. All in all, its a huge disappointment and I am left wondering whether I should renew my subscription or not.
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The New Yorker Magazine, v3.1