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How many of us have reduced our consumption of print media in favor of digital publications while traveling?

To be precise, I don't mean trading traditional news gathering organizations for "social media" or other types of information sources, but changing the method of delivery for your previously paper-based news sources.

For instance, I subscribe to the Economist, and I rarely open my paper copy any more as I enjoy the reading experience on my Android phone as much or more than reading the magazine, especially on the go.

I also used to subscribe to the iPad edition of Vanity Fair, which I thought did a good job of melding interactive elements into the editorial content. I have since given my iPad away... too much clutter in my carry-on and I can't jettison the laptop quite yet.

On the other hand, I subscribed to some magazines via Zinio (with some deep discounts) and was disappointed. They were basically PDF scans of the paper versions and all the panning and scanning was hard on my eyes.

I would like to subscribe to the New York Times' digital edition, but I still feel like their prices are a bit too dear, even with the Black Friday sale just passed. I get the value proposition, especially considering the sheer amount of quality reading I would get, but I just can't get past the psychological barrier of the high(ish) sticker price for a product I can't touch with my hands. To date my only long-term digital-only subscription product is Netflix.

Are there any digital-only NYT subscribers among us? I'd be interested to hear how you like it and whether there are any discounts out there.

I'm an ipad user and I have to admit I just didn't get Newstand when it first came out - just seemed to be a folder for Apps but in time as it has developed I now do get it and am a convert!

As a Brit, I subscribe to The Daily Telegraph which is �10 pm - the app used to be very buggy and it took about 10 attempts to get into the App which was intensely frustrating but they seemed to have cured that and with upgrades to Newstand it will now automatically download the latest copy rather than me having to instigate it - this was a big change for me as it meant I just needed to pick up my ipad when leaving the house in the morning rather than open it up and instigate the download and wait before I could leave (I have wifi only). The convenience of the App is great and I find it a great reading experience - they have photo galleries for that days events which show really well and even things like the crossword work better on the electronic format.

More lately I've gotten into other magazines on Newstand - these are a mix of scaled-pdf type (like Zinio) but also dedicated apps - I quite like both sorts - in a way I prefer the scaled pdf type as otherwise feel I may be missing parts of the print publication (if that makes sense!). On the iPad, at least, the panning/zooming works quite well for me.

The thing that doesn't still work particularly well for me is browsing the Newstand store for titles - it is integrated into the normal App Store and I haven't found how you can just search on Newstand titles rather than all Apps! (hopefully someone will be along to tell me). Overall I've now given up on print magazines to the point if I'm in a newsagent and see a mag that looks interesting I'll have a look to see if they do a digital copy and buy that instead of the paper version!

i tried it but couldnt fully make the switch... i attribute it mostly due to the medium used instead -- zinio app on android -- which is quite terrible. im picking up an ipad mini when its available to me and will try again; i have some confidence it will be much better

for other print such as newspaper, the physical format still wins

I use digital content from my library quite extensively, from audio books to ebooks (epub format on the overdrive app) to magazines (via zinio).

It seems the thing to remember for zinio is that the quality and interactivity of the content is dependent on the publisher or title. For instance, National Geographic and Car & Driver are highly interactive, but Motor Trend and Smithsonian are basically "scans" of the paper magazine, as the OP put it (ie, no interactive content). The readability of the "true" digital magazines is a positive for me, while the case of the latter examples is a detractor.

EDIT: I should point out that I consume digital media on my iPad. iPhone is way too small for me.

I'm still a paper magazine guy. I subscribe to the Economist and, while the iOS app is nice, my iPhone screen is too small for sustained reading.