Adirondack_Will

Folks:

I receive around 20 print magazines and two daily newspapers. I travel a lot and managing the print entropy is taking way too much of my time. I like to keep certain pubs, like fine woodworking and the wine spectator around to archive interesting articles. On the other hand, I only read about 10% of my WSJ daily subscription on any given day and don't want to keep all that content.

I am a tech geek in addition to being a builder and woodworker. For example, in addition to designing very fast supercomputers, I have a PC, three apple laptops, an iphone, a kindle and a blackberry; and I intend to buy an ipad soon (although I AM looking at the Macbook Air as an alternative to the ipad.) So, I am really interested in electronic subscription.

I would like to see a number of things happen to make it more attractive:
1. if I subscribe to a magazine or newspaper either in print or on line, I should have the choice of getting it on my ipad at no additional cost.
2. I should be able to download content to the ipad and keep it indefinitely. In fact, it should be trivially easy for me to archive all content.
3. I should be able to move my subscription and archived content to a new reader as the technology evolves at no additional cost.
4. I need to be able to back up my content in such a fashion that it is at least as secure as keeping the hard copies of issues.

I have not moved my WSJ subscription to a reader since they want an additional $4 a week on top of my print subscription fee. I checked and the same is true if I were to switch to the on-line version of the WSJ. In addition they only archive a week of content. [That is not so bad a problem with a newspaper if I can copy and paste interesting articles into my own archival files.] But you know it would be easy for WSJ to note the articles I actually open and read and give me the option when I finish with them to archive them as part of their app.

Okay, so when can I get FW on my soon to be ipad?

Adirondack_Will