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If you have an Overdrive Library subscription, you can try checking its magazine section to see if your library subscribes to the magazine(s) you read.

Locally, my Library has Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, etc. It used to also have The Economist, but that appears to have recently vanished.

For subscriptions to SFF magazines, try WeightlessBooks which offers subscription to a number of magazines [1]

[1] https://weightlessbooks.com/category/magazine/

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To my mind a significant part of the value proposition for the Kindle edition is you don't have to do anything and it just gets delivered to the device.

ah yea this was going to be my follow-up to the post you replied to, can I use the library app(s) (Overdrive, Libby, Axis, etc) to subscribe to new editions of these mags as they arrive at the library?

...the obvious answer from a business standpoint is of course for the magazines to not allow this, but I'm not going to remember to go look at some edition

Libby does have a smart tags feature that can be used to alert you about new magazines [1]. (Libby is the library app developed by Overdrive.)

> Can I be notified when new magazine issues are available?

> Yes! You can use a "Notify Me" smart tag in Libby to get a notification when new issues of a magazine are available at your library.

[1] https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6224.htm

I noticed the same thing re: The Economist through Libby (which I think is still Overdrive but prettier?). I wonder if The Economist is quickly pulling away from public libraries?

They just got added to PressReader. Economist was gone for a while from my library and related apps as a magazine. I could still read the articles.

> For subscriptions to SFF magazines, try WeightlessBooks which offers subscription to a number of magazines

No Asimov's at first glance. Asimov's do offer a non-amazon electronic subscription through some other web site, but it looks like it's only readable through their app. If I go off Kindle, I might as well go DRM free.

Yes, no Asimovs or Analog on WeightlessBooks, unfortunately. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Ficton is there, though.

At least... F&SF is the other subscription I just lost :)

Some libraries might also have a digital newspaper subscription. Won't work on a Kindle but will work on a tablet and you can get eink tablets too now. Mine has most newspapers except the really big ones.

I wasn't able to find any integration with overdrive in Canada when I last tried the kindle. The Kobo's here do work seamlessly with overdrive but only for ebooks though, no magazines or audiobooks

Yes, the Kobo doesn't work with magazines either for me.

An alternative is to use the Libby App on the phone. You can also download the magazines for offline reading.

Or you could use the Libbyapp [1] on the browser to sign in to your Overdrive account, borrow and read the magazines.

[1] https://libbyapp.com/

yup. That's what I do right now when I want to check out magazines. Though, I will admit that's not often

With that being said, it would be amazing if Kobo can implement support for magazines so that you could use eink displays for reading magazines in a park on a sunny day without any glare

I believe it should be possible for some magazines. I read some issues of The Economist and National Geographic magazine, and they come with a 'reader mode' where the magazine page formatting is removed, and you are presented with bare text and images, like the Reader Mode in Firefox (and Chrome?).

That should work on a Kobo. But it requires Overdrive to recognize this and push the readable formatted magazine to the Kobo.

Kindle don't work with overdrive anywhere except for the United States.

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