I am pro “digital”. I would love nothing more than to have an archive of all of the Vogues I have purchased over the years in one medium I can carry around. I am more of an advocate for tablet-based magazines (ie iPad) vs. computer/online magazines because there is a cold, detached feeling I get from online magazines. I don`t like them, web pages are very ugly.
I would much rather read the Nytimes and style.com iPhone apps than their online counterparts.
I would also love to be able to purchase 5 or 6 magazines for a long airplane ride or road trip. I could never carry around such weight in their paper forms.
Another reason is space- I don`t have much of it, living in a city where shoebox-sized apartments are considered luxury. I can imagine in places like Hong Kong, the feeling is the same. Who keeps CD jewel cases anymore?
As much as I enjoy reading a book and a magazine, they end up in storage, hardly ever seeing the light. I must continually dispose of them as my bookcases fill up. It saddens me, but I just cannot keep them.
The way I see it, I would keep my magazines and novels on a device like the ipad and enjoy trips to the library and art museums to pick through the large-format-sized books as a treat.
This is coming from someone who has yet to own something like the iPad, but next generation I will probably be purchasing one, and hoping more magazines will be available for it by then.
I know there are also cons..technology quickly becomes obsolete as do digital formats, waste, etc. What are your opinions?
