With an iPad and the iPad mini fighting for some free space on our coffee table, it has become obvious that there is no more room in our life for archaic forms of literary entertainment referred to as “magazines”. Its not that we are such high level nerds that the sheer smell of paper sends us scurrying to the lavatory .. but we don’t have the coffee table real estate .. comprende ?
Unless we do act now, the terrible alternative will be us turning into social neaderthals who, without their weekly dose of readable pulp, will no longer be aware when Jessica Biel went to bed with Justin Bieber and will completely miss out on any blurry pictures of Emma Watsons Nipslips on the beach in Saint Tropez … What to do ?
We need our magazines digitally. So enter “Bookshellf” Yes. that annoying IOS application that has an icon you can no longer delete or hide in another folder. Forced to sit passively as the very last icon on our furthest homescreen , Bookshellf is useless .. or is it.
Sure , you can use it to BUY subscriptions to tons of magazines. But we refouse adamently to pay any amount of cash for a magazine that does not come in a form usable for wiping ones buttocks should the need arise. (The iPad Mini just isn’t pliable enough for the job). Thus we present you with a welcome alternative to papparazi-deprivation and outright privacy : Here is our top five FREE magazines you can subscribe to in the Bookshelf app.
Endgadget Distro : Well done, well built and very informative glossy magazine for the geek. A must read.
iGIZMO magazine : The glossy side of Gizmodo.
GameQ : For gamers who can read (or at least stare at glossy pictures below 99 fps)
CPU : For hardware geeks who like to set their clocks to overclock.
Gadchick : For those geeks among us who cannot pee standing up (without accesories)
Do you have some more ? Tell us in the comment section and eternal fame and glory .. is yours !
There are also plenty more where these came from . To get you started here is the complete list.
Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine
WebMD the Magazine
#5 Magazine
Sporting News
Ensign
Co-op Food Mag
Snap Magazine
LEVELED
Gamereactor
Lowdown Magazine
Alligator Magazine
Enjoying Everyday Life Magazine
Project Sounds
The Watch Magazine
Psychic Today
SLH Beinspired.
Thanx Macrumors for the source.