Brian Kerr

Four months ago, I wrote about how much I was looking forwards to the release of The Complete New Yorker — a DVD set of eighty years’ worth of scanned New Yorker magazines.

The collection has now been released, and is getting some really poor reviews out in the bloglands. Apparently, the collection shipped with a lousy interface and a half-assed attempt at DRM. Some people are having performance issues (such as the author of the review above), but others are doing fine.

Oh well — old magazines are more fun (if less accessible) to read at the library, anyways.

An interesting aside: there are some open legal issues concerning republication which caused National Geographic to trash a similar collection a few years ago. This observation brought to you by the letter K.