The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) | 
| Creators: New Yorker, David Remnick
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
List Price: $100.00
Buy New: $21.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 53568
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Book & DVD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 123
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1400064740
Dewey Decimal Number: 051.097471
EAN: 9781400064748
ASIN: 1400064740
Publication Date: September 20, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: These are all Brand New in original unopened SEALED packaging of clear plastic
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Amazon.com Review
Fans of The New Yorker will be dazzled by The Complete New Yorker, a collection that includes every page of every issue, from full-color covers to spot drawings, from poetry to Profiles, from cartoons to advertisements--all on 8 searchable DVDs. No need to save old issues, with this package, you'll have every article, cartoon, illustration, and advertisement, as it appeared in print, at your fingertips. The Complete New Yorker covers the magazine's entire history, from February 1925 to February 2005, providing a detailed yet panoramic history of the life of the city, the nation, and the world.
With The Complete New Yorker, you'll be able to:
Browse by Cover (click to zoom):
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Search the archives for your favorite articles, cartoons, covers, and see them exactly as they appeared in print:
(October 13, 1934):
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Product Description
EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE
ON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS.
A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine.
What has the New Yorker said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing, Winston Churchill, Citizen Kane, the invention of television, the Cold War, baseball, the lunar landing, Willem de Kooning, Madonna, the internet, and 9/11?
Eighty years of The New Yorker offers a detailed, entertaining history of the life of the city, the nation, and the world since 1925.
Every article, every cartoon, every illustration, every advertisement, exactly as it appeared on the printed page, in full color. Flip through full spreads of the magazine to browse headlines, art work, ads, and cartoons, or zoom in on a single page, for closer viewing. Print any pages or covers you choose, or bookmark pages with your own notes.
Our powerful search environment allows you to home in on the pieces you want to see. Our entire history is catalogued by date, contributor, department, and subject.
4, 109 ISSUES. HALF A MILLION PAGES. YOURS TO SEARCH AND SAVOR.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 96 more reviews...
 do yourself a favor, do NOT buy this December 17, 2008
I'm an avid New Yorker reader, for over 10 years. I was really excited when the DVD set came out, ordered it right away and boy wasn't I in for a rude awakening. The interface is really hard to figure out, each article takes an eon to load, and don't bother with the search function, it just doesn't work. The bug-infested, awkwardly designed original DVD set got unanimous bad reviews, just do a search.
Against my best judgement, I bought the v1.3 update disk this year hoping for a redemption. It arrived after a MONTH I ordered it, and it simply WON'T install. I'm no computer genius but I'll say I'm reasonably tech savvy, but I just simply can't get the installation to work. It'll stuck at 100% and freeze the whole system. I emailed, called the tech support, NO response. This is basically just a text viewer, i don't know why it's so damn hard to make it work.
 I LOVE THIS GIFT! June 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My son just gave me The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine as an "early" birthday gift - He could NOT wait until July! It is wonderful! I will be 76 so I know all the covers and the cartoons - I also have 2 iMacs - both with 20" screens - so I can QUICKLY open up the entire magazine on one page and read it. The design is terrific - you can find anything you want in seconds - and what fun it is! I thought it might have cost as much as $400.00 - it is a great gift. Buy it for someone who loves the New Yorker - make that someone very, very happy.
 Search function impossible January 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a faithful New Yorker Magazine subscriber and jumped at the chance to have the complete archive available on CD. Here's the problem that others may be able to help me with. Am I a complete dunce or is the Search function totally impossible? The Help page does not help.
I have been trying to find an article (year I can't recall) about domestic violence which told about how worthless protection orders are, that they are only good for "where to find the body." Protection orders don't protect someone. They won't stop someone from doing violence. In my search I've tried domestic violence, protection order, law enforcement, even where to find the body.
Is there some secret or basics that I've been unable to grasp? What a great concept to have a complete archive or The New Yorker. What a BIG disappointment that you can't find anything. Water water every where, but not a drop....
The presence of five-star reviews confounds me... December 26, 2007
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
A short disclaimer:
I dearly love the New Yorker.
And I rarely feel the urge to return Christmas presents, but the Complete New Yorker is a deserved exception. The software is so poorly put together that the price tag is not at all justified. The programming is the sort I might expect from software on the $5 bargain rack.
I can deal with clunky interfaces, which the Complete New Yorker has in spades (can't save articles, search is far more difficult and inaccurate than necessary, indexing is poorly done). However, this program is maybe half USEABLE. Expect frequent crashes. I am completely unable to access entire issues due to various problems. Several whole YEARS of issues are inaccessible because of the reading errors caused by the software, and that is only including those that I have noticed on one disc. Others have complained about the search feature, which honestly I might have done without for my purposes. That I am unable even to read the magazine in a lot of cases because of inept software development is a huge disappointment.
And let's not forget that the program uses spyware to collect personal information and share it with third parties.
Wow. What a terrible product. I implore you not to buy.
 non-usa customers beware October 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
nothing against the fine content of the magazine itself, but to quote a previous reviewer, "developers should be forced to crawl on their knees from Manhattan to Murray Hill to beg forgiveness for their programming sins." i wholeheartedly concur.
if you are installing and trying to run it on the computer with locale settings other than USA (russian in my case), it refuses to work and dies with GetDayOfNNY error trying to parse date formatted in country's local format. switching to USA locale (start -> settings -> control panel -> regional and language options -> english (united states)) fixes the problem. just imagine doing this juggling each time you want to read!
windows xp, .net 1.1 (and tried 2.0 as well), current on all patches, fully licensed and legal copy.
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