PressReader: News & Magazines

My premium subscription to PressReader is the best investment I can think of that I've made in the past several years. Full access to over 7000 newspapers and magazines. Personally, I restrict my newspapers to those in the Spanish language, and there are dozens and dozens of them--- so many that each day I can decide which Hispanic country's newspaper I wish to read that day. My only minor frustration is that on the iPad where I use PressReader it does not show the country of origin of each Spanish language newspaper. But it does show the country of origin in the iPhone version of PressReader. So I use the iPhone version to determine the country of origin and then I read the newspaper itself on my iPad. The reason PressReader is an absolutely "must have" app is because I can put my finger on the textual version of any Spanish language newspaper, and Google translate pops up and gives me a great translation. In addition, PressReader has a computerized female voice that will read newspaper articles to me in Spanish if I choose.

The pleasure of electronically reading the newspaper in the paper form laid out by the editors with zooming and links to articles cannot be understated. It works wonderfully with smartphones and computers with pads that permit control with finger movement. It’s the closest one can get to having the actual newspaper replicated in your computer. PressReader still needs to improve the dependability of links jumping to articles and sections of the paper. This function does not always work. It could also be improved with an efficient search tool for finding articles and subjects. One final note. There are no obvious instructions for setting up the app, and using all the available tools. This is a failure of communication all too common today.