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Maybe you guys don't know any more about it than I do, but if you subscribe to a magazine that goes to digital only, and you let the subscription lapse after maybe two years or so, do you still have access to the back issues that you paid for, or are you locked out entirely?

I don't know why it even crossed my mind, but I have years of old magazines here that I can research anytime I want to, but if I got locked out of an online only subscription, all that information would be gone for me.
 
Good question, no answer. Id guess that you would be SOL. Could you download the articles that you might want someday but that would use a lot of storage space on your computer.
 
That would depend entirely on the publisher, there is no standard. I haven't done any e-mags recently, but when I did in the past I was able to download the full issues as PDFs and save them.

Depending on the level of graphic content the file size can vary, but most full magazine issues would not be considered a large file by today's standards. A decent sized thumb drive i.e. $20 256GB could pretty readily hold all your e-mag content for years of issues.
 
As others mentioned, downloading is doable. One problem long term with that is backward compatibility. That can be software or hardware or both. But if you download to a PDF then the hard copy will be good as long as the paper it's printed on stays readable. Straight digital storage is as good as the medium it's recorded to.

Kind of along the same line, is a presentation I attended given by a camera shop employee, discussing how long will digital photos last. It was referencing CDs (this was several years ago) that were the storage medium. He was suggesting storage time into the hundreds of years and the attendees were quite skeptical of that.
 
I don't consider it a magazine if it's not in print.
Plus if it's only online, it's subject to the whims of someone somewhere deciding they don't like what you're saying and deleting everything off the servers.
 
i despise digital magazines . they too cheep to send paper im not interested. i want paper i got to buy paper printer and spend my time for what i was paying for in first place.
as for resource wasting fast growing trees are planted that supply paper and when washington dc wants more money they chop more trees down print more money and act like its all cool
 
(quoted from post at 05:34:05 06/05/23) i despise digital magazines . they too cheep to send paper im not interested. i want paper i got to buy paper printer and spend my time for what i was paying for in first place.
as for resource wasting fast growing trees are planted that supply paper and when washington dc wants more money they chop more trees down print more money and act like its all cool
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I find digital to be superior. Paper magazines, manuals, reference books occupy a lot of physical space and are easily damaged. Also thanks to digital I'm able to keep and archive copies of videos showing such things as rebuild of a diesel injection pump for future reference.

With digital versions I can keep all my materials in a very small physical space and keep a backup copy separately. As long as you keep things in standard formats like PDF and MP4 you can be confident of their accessibility long into the future and you can also keep copies of reader / player software on the same media.

Perhaps most importantly print a page or two for reference while I work where the paper is likely to get oil and dirt on it and can be tossed after the work is complete.

More recently I've added a cheap refurb laptop on a swing arm at my workbench so that I can readily view the manuals for things I can work on at my workbench, as well as have convenient access to lookup and order parts as needed. I can still print paper docs for things that won't fit on the workbench to take to where the work is.
 
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