I came up with this site searching for a contact I needed for one client and I was totally amazed. As I saw in what quality and simplicity it is possible to browse magazines, documents and any other stuff you normally find in print. In my moments of boredom I have been looking around in Google Books, but this has a different target group and is far more better (read: looks better). The best features in my opinion are that it integrates with social networking sites, you can embed it to anywhere you want (like I did embed it to my blog here) and what’s most important you can search throughout the text inside the documents/magazines.
Besides fashion and advertising magazines I’m interested in, I found Estonian Hooaeg in superb quality. Pure joy. I hope all other Estonian magazines - the ones I usually have pay for- soon find their way to the online, as knowingly Hooaeg if for free.
If you’re interested in online browsing please check up also Issuu’s main competitors Docstoc and Scribd as well.
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Converting paper magazine layout one2one into web might not be the best solution all the time. It requires relatively huge screen/monitor to get pleasure by reading "portrait" magazine from "landscape" screen. Usually paper magazines are printed on portrait orientation and then they don't want to fit on widescreen monitors and therefor it's not very convenient to zoom and scroll the pages all the time.
ReplyDeleteI was browsing photographer's portfolio photobooks in Issuu and these were fascinating.
Well, there are e-readers. There are some very nice ones available and soon via Amazon will be the new touch screen e-reader which accommodates internet, some other simple tasks and looks like million bucks. If I happen to find the link, I'll send it to you.
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