The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) (Hardcover)

~ New Yorker (Editor), David Remnick (Introduction)

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Fans of The New Yorker will be dazzled by The Complete New Yorker, a collection that includes every page of every issue, from full-color covers to spot drawings, from poetry to Profiles, from cartoons to advertisements--all on 8 searchable DVDs. No need to save old issues, with this package, you'll have every article, cartoon, illustration, and advertisement, as it appeared in print, at your fingertips. The Complete New Yorker covers the magazine's entire history, from February 1925 to February 2005, providing a detailed yet panoramic history of the life of the city, the nation, and the world.

With The Complete New Yorker, you'll be able to:

Browse by Cover (click to zoom):

Search by Keyword (click to zoom):

View Entire Articles (click to zoom):

Search the archives for your favorite articles, cartoons, covers, and see them exactly as they appeared in print:

(October 13, 1934):

(August 31, 1946)

(September 23, 1961):

(July 22, 1974):

(September 10, 2001):

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Product Description

EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE
ON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS.

A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine.


What has the New Yorker said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing, Winston Churchill, Citizen Kane, the invention of television, the Cold War, baseball, the lunar landing, Willem de Kooning, Madonna, the internet, and 9/11?

Eighty years of The New Yorker offers a detailed, entertaining history of the life of the city, the nation, and the world since 1925.

Every article, every cartoon, every illustration, every advertisement, exactly as it appeared on the printed page, in full color. Flip through full spreads of the magazine to browse headlines, art work, ads, and cartoons, or zoom in on a single page, for closer viewing. Print any pages or covers you choose, or bookmark pages with your own notes.

Our powerful search environment allows you to home in on the pieces you want to see. Our entire history is catalogued by date, contributor, department, and subject.


4, 109 ISSUES. HALF A MILLION PAGES. YOURS TO SEARCH AND SAVOR.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 123 pages
• Publisher: Random House; Book & DVD-ROM edition (September 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400064740
• ISBN-13: 978-1400064748
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #55,533 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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249 of 255 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great but some quibbles, September 23, 2005

By	Tinmanic (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

It's wonderful to have the entire run of the New Yorker at my fingertips. One can only marvel at all the time and effort that went into this project. I'm thankful and impressed.

After using it for a couple of days, here are some comments:

1) Swapping DVDs is more inconvenient than I'd expected. I'm an informational grazer, and I'll sometimes want to dip into something that's on a different DVD from the one currently in the computer. I might take a spare DVD wallet and put the New Yorker DVDs in it so I don't have to open the heavy hardcover book (which contains the DVDs) each time I want to swap disks. As a previous reviewer states, it would be great to be able to install all the data on one's hard drive. Using the New Yorker DVDs is not quite as smooth as using the Web. (I guess we've been spoiled.)

A couple of times, when I've swapped DVDs, the application hangs while trying to read the new disk. I'm not sure why.

2) The search function is not totally intuitive. The author/department/year/issue search works completely differently from the keyword search, and when you're trying to use them together, it's not easy to figure out what you're doing.

3) For some reason I can't access the issue of February 20, 1989, although I can access other issues on the disk that contains it. I don't know if it's just a defective disk or if this is the case with all copies.

4) I wish I could print just the text of an article without the cartoons and ads if I wanted. Some articles are spread over an unnecessarily large number of magazine pages, because some of those pages contain only one column of actual text. And on printouts, the text resolution (even of more recent issues) is not as crisp as in an actual copy of the magazine. Basically, it would be nice to be able to print out the text of an article as a Word document or something similar. (I think this is not possible for legal reasons, though.)

5) I wish there were an intermediate viewing size between Fit Width and 100%. The former is too big but the latter is sometimes too small. PDF files are incredibly resizable, but these files are not.

Since the New Yorker is planning to issue a new Disc 1 every year (which contains the table of contents and the main installation materials), they can hopefully fix some of the search problems or make the interface smoother.

These are all quibbles, though. I don't want to overlook the wonderful fact that I now have access to all of the New Yorker from my own computer. This is a terrific resource.

146 of 154 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars spyware alert!, December 24, 2005

By	anonymous "anonymous" (East Coast USA) - See all my reviews

To view the Complete New Yorker you must install their software, and you must accept their license agreement. Scroll down past the usual legal terms to clause number 7, where you will see that you give them permission to record your complete viewing information, including which pages you view, for how long, at what time, from what IP address. Further, you give them permission to link all this data to your personal information including your name and address, and give/sell this to any third party.

Here's exactly what it says:

7. Collection of Viewing Information. You acknowledge that you are aware of and consent to the collection of your viewing information during your use of the Software and/or Content. Viewing information may include, without limitation, the time spent viewing specific pages, the order in which pages are viewed, the time of day pages are accessed, IP address and user ID. This viewing information may be linked to personally identifiable information, such as name or address and shared with third parties.

173 of 187 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great value but a little slow, September 22, 2005

By	Mark (USA) - See all my reviews

Just spent a day with the product and must say :"The Complete New Yorker : Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine" is an incredible value.

After installing the database from your hard drive you can search the New York times by keyword or read it from cover to cover. (Note the keyword feature only searches titles and abstracts of the articles. It is impossible to search the actual text itself).

After a keyword is entered a list of articles with abstracts appears in the search window. A double click on the title will bring up the "viewer" which loads a scanned copy of the article (reminds me of an Adobe pdf document). The image quality so far is excellent. A few pages have been scanned in on a slight angle but most are straight as an arrow.

My only complaint is that the data is split across 8 DVDs, and unfortunately you don't have the option of installing the data to your hard drive. On some subjects this can mean a lot of disc swapping. For example on the subject of computers I had to swap discs five times to read the articles. And the load time is very slow compared to reading documents from the hard drive or the internet.

Speed aside the archive is WONDERFUL! The New Yorker is a well written magazine and to have every issue since 1925 at your finger tips is awesome. I highly recommend this product. I only hope in a future update the New Yorker will give the user the option to read the archive straight from the hard drive.