As its name implies, THE COMPLETE NEW YORKER contains everything that has been in the New Yorker- every ad, article and cartoon. At least until the publication date of the DVD Rom set. Updates may or may not be available or forthcoming, but who cares? This is the New Yorker from before you were born, most likely. And it takes up a lot less space than a stack of magazines. As other reviewers point out, the searching is a little odd, but eminently workable. You would be surprised at the ease with which articles can be found, even cartoons by caption. Two important drawbacks exist: 1) The user licensing agreement hints rather strongly that The New Yorker will monitor your use. This can be solved by running the disks on a computer that is not connected to the internet. 2)This product was developed and published for Windows platforms which are becoming outdated. It may or may not work in your brand-new computer. On the other hand, it might be a great way to squeeze some more usefulness out of your most recent retiree. As the price drops on this remarkable achievement, you might consider buying two- in case the dog eats one of your disks or something...Read full review
Decadent! Ease of use is spectacular and it just boggles the mind that every single page since 1925 is right at your fingertips. Especially interesting is the very first issue. Aside from the contents themselves, you get to imagine the people who were reading the issue, of how different they were and of how similar, of their unique viewpoint simply by virtue of being products of a different era and of how different their world was. The Complete New Yorker will leave you with a sense that you're tapping into an endless goldmine. Simply decadent.
This item contains 8 cds with the full set of all the New Yorker magazines starting at 1925 through 2005. The set works even on windows 7 PC. This is just wonderful it has all the pictures and text.
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This is astounding value now, the price has steadily fallen this past year. Every page of every issue since the 20's. The best writing of any American magazine. Superlative. On 8 DVD's, requires a computer to view pages, your TV won't do. With a book included, but for some reason it is glued in the case on its back page. Searchable, although there might be some annoying back and forth switching of DVD's.
My interest is in the 1930s and 1940s and having the DVD set of the New Yorker is like being able to go back in time. We're using it on our Vista machine; the software requirements are Windows 2000, XP (and we've had no problems on Vista) or Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. The set is searchable but the database only uses keywords for articles or stories, not the text in them. That's a minor problem.
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