Wood Magazine

Reading a mag online should be a pleasurable experience. After all, one can scroll, zoom on details, easily flip around to any desired content - well, that’s what one would “like” to do - but not so smooth with this reader. I suppose I’m spoiled with the current PDF readers and how smooth and seamless they work - Wood Magazine is great and the writers are top notch - wish this app was up to par.

This is really a very well designed and easy to use app. The articles look just like the magazine, and this is my favorite magazine for woodworking. It’s focused on sophisticated woodworking but not too advanced. Complaints: linking my subscription was unnecessarily complicated. It didn’t work at first.I reached customer service easily but they abruptly dumped my case and gave me an email for different customer service halfway through resolution. (Have you ever heard of the forward button?) The second leg (Zineo) quickly linked my account. Another complaint, I wish it was easier to search and purchase plans. You can search old issues and buy those, but you can’t buy plans which would be great. I think it’s possible on the website but not here that I can find. Normally these flaws would be a big downgrade, but the content and app is perfect.

Things used to be better, had access to all the issues I bought, but now the app won’t open properly. All it does is sit and spin. I am only able to get it to open by deleting (which deletes all of my local content) and reloading the app from the App Store. I have gotten adept at logging back in which seems to work for a very short time for one issue viewing only which barely downloads. I queue up downloads of previous issues to be able to reference them, but they never download. When I return to the app for later viewing, all it does is sit and spin. Big mistake to switch from print to digital. Very disappointed.