I’ve been thinking about switching my Make magazine subscription from the ‘Premier’ paper+digital to digital only.  The digital edition of Make is available as a PDF, which is easily imported into iTunes as an eBook, which in turn is easily synced to the iPad.

In addition to the obvious advantages such as reduced cost, faster delivery and searchability, a complete Make back catalogue on the iPad takes up significantly less space than the paper version, an advantage will only increase over time.

To further illustrate the point, the above stack of paper copies of Make weigh about 9,400g (20.7 lbs) or about about 13 3G iPads (14 for the WiFi-only version).

Tags: iBooks, iPad, Make Magazine

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