Elektor’s March 2009 issue has been on sale in UK and European newsstands and bookshops from 19 February 2009. Great, but did you know that the online version with exactly the same content, cover to cover, is also available for downloading against 50 e-credits, defeating a bus ticket to the city or coins for the parking meter? The full magazine download -- a pdf file of about 15 Megabytes -- may be found under the Magazine tab on the homepage.
E-credits are easy to buy and add to your personal account – simply log on to www.elektor.com and use the Elektor Credits button in the Products box on the homepage. The easiest way to pay is probably by Paypal. Special servers are available to cope with the traffic caused by clients getting the download.
Every issue of Elektor published since September 2006 can be downloaded in its entirety for storing in your personal archive. The pdf format allows convenient printing and browsing. The price in e-credits is invariably lower than that of the equivalent printed copy bought from a newsstand, plus you avoid the hassle of ‘sold out’, ‘not stocked’, ‘computer-sez-no’, as well as travel expenses to get to the shopping centre in the first place. The online edition also beats the newsstands for timing as it appears roughly on the same day UK mainland subscribers get their copy by post. This should be of great interest to readers in distant locations who normally have to wait a 6-8 weeks before Elektor is stocked locally.
The March 2009 issue has a nice mix of all the latest microcontroller stuff on the one hand and vintage electronics on the other, as witnessed by the R32C micro and the 6845 valve peacefully together on the cover.
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