Okay, I don’t do breakfast quite like this everyday (with exception of the mocha – it’s a necessity), but I do read the newspapers and magazines on the iPad as a daily ritual.
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The Times tablet edition is one of the better efforts from the Murdoch stable. It’s also great value for money – I have an annual subscription to Find My Past which will help me with my research into family history. There are regular competitions to win holidays (alas, I am not yet a winner), free eBooks, cinema screenings, two-for-one cinema tickets and a lot more.
The Guardian & The Observer offers a more liberal view of the news, a great counterpoint to the The Times more conservative values. it doesn’t attempt to compete with The Times+ offers and freebies, but nevertheless I still consider it good value for money.
Radio Times tablet edition is a bit of a mixed bag. Unlike its native iPad cousin, Radio Times Discover TV, the Radio Times tablet edition is a glorified PDF with navigation links to other areas of the magazine and external articles. On an iPad mini, the article text is very small and one must resort to pinch/zoom (which is an enormous PITA) to avoid eyestrain when reading articles and getting a closer look at TV listings. It badly needs work – primarily to improve text readability. Also unlike its cousin, it can’t connect to the Sky+ app to set-up recording on Sky+/Sky+ HD boxes. Until the recent Doctor Who special edition, the tablet edition had a massively annoying “feature” whereby the clickable links would flash purple every time you changed page.
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