Comments on: How to create an iPad archive of the entire run of Spy magazine in two hours

By: Kevin Grant

Kevin Grant — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:25:00 +0000

A better option, in my opinion, is the one that dbg7 alluded to. Go to http://www.gbooksdownloader.com and get Google Books Downloader (OSX and Windows) which will download the book in PNG format. Zip up the folder and change the extension from .zip to .cbz (no need to convert from PNG to JPG). Upload the .cbz to Dropbox and use a program like Comic Zeal on your iPad to read it :)

The advantage of this method is file size - 25MB for the PDF versus 6MB for the CBZ :)

By: Teller

Teller — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:11:00 +0000

And the female Soviet Olympian.

By: suburbanhick

suburbanhick — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:03:00 +0000

My hands-down favourite part of ‘Spy’ was “Separated at Birth”. So nasty and so bang-on! I would wait every month for my copy to arrive just for that feature.

By: Nick Woolridge

Nick Woolridge — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:59:00 +0000

Mac OS X could do that too (OS X and Linux are just unix variants, after all). I hardly think that figuring out Google’s URL scheme, using curl, and compressing is easier though; I know my way around the command line but I’d much rather use a simple GUI program like this any day

By: Sparg

Sparg — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:34:00 +0000

You could install “cosine” to balance out the “arccosine”.

By: Lippy Lippy

Lippy Lippy — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:14:00 +0000

ANY excuse to re-read classic “SPY” is a great day for me!

Thanks for the post!

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:08:00 +0000

And the classic photoshop of Hillary in a dominatrix leather bustier’.

By: Gerard Gualberto

Gerard Gualberto — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Here’s a list of all the ID’s.

IQ_TRFid5NMC Oct 1986
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dbQdefSNyCUC May 1991
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Xa7j5ofHW0EC Mar 1992
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goAxRblMWT4C Jul-Aug 1992
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sfn5zbAU4VQC Jun 1993
DdQ9WL9ODdwC Jul-Aug 1993
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By: dbg7

dbg7 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:06:00 +0000

load on books.google.com seems rather high right now.. I wonder why

By: Teller

Teller — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:23:00 +0000

Loved Spy for its shining, intelligent snark.
Also, nice choice of the ‘or we’ll burn this flag’ cover – a loving tribute to the greatest Nat’l Lampoon cover ever.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:12:00 +0000

I remember one time I was reading the ‘List’ feature they ran every month and I suddenly realized, ‘OMG I actually understand this one!’

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:08:00 +0000

I found the 1994 Spy election comic book extra the other day, which had a superhero theme. Bubba was like fat Elvis in an Evel Knevel jump suit, Hillary wore red spandex and was built like Wonder Woman. Al Gore was a living tree (“The Wooden Wonder”) while Tipper was “The Hearth Keeper” wearing an apron. Dan Quayle was an angry little fat boy dressed like Robin who was called “Hawk Chick.”

By: monopole

monopole — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:04:00 +0000

Rather amusing in that it’s much simpler to do with linux and android, just use curl to dump the images to a folder, compress the folder to a .cbz and send it to your tablet. Read it with perfect viewer.

By: dbg7

dbg7 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:04:00 +0000

If you download as a folder of jpg files, archive the folder, and then rename it from .zip to .cbz, you can view it with most comic reader programs.

By: tw1515tw

tw1515tw — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:28:00 +0000

+1 for Calibre, but you can copy your PDFs to the iPad via ITunes, and then view in the iBooks app.

He’s right to say the iPad 3 gives a much better approximation of an actual print-magazine experience than a web browser does. The pinch and zoom works well, although I haven’t yet found a way to get the pages to turn in the same way as .ibook and .EPUB files.

In fact, after you’ve read a few documents on the iPad 3, web based content starts to look slightly odd. I think it’s because iBooks and Kindle in the iPad use a lateral navigation approach (you move through pages left to right), whereas web content tends to use a vertical navigation approach (you scroll down).

By: fergus1948

fergus1948 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:27:00 +0000

New iPad! Just wondering if your left hand was slowly being cooked while posing for the photo?

By: Drew Gold

Drew Gold — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:26:00 +0000

In the windows version, if you do a custom install, it wants to install something called ‘arrcosine’. Looks a wee bit evil to my eyes. I did install the app without the ‘arccosine’ option.

By: Justin Neitzey

Justin Neitzey — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Sorry, I just realized it came out on the 13th. Didn’t mean to be snarky.

By: Justin Neitzey

Justin Neitzey — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:17:00 +0000

Google Play Books. iPad.

By: Patrick Christian

Patrick Christian — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:11:00 +0000

Dropbox is great for that, but a better tool would be Calibre which not only manages all of your e-book, comics, pdf’s but also hosts them on a webpage. Open up one port and you have access to all of that from anywhere with download links and the ability to add as a source in Stanza (iOS) or Aldiko (Android) see http://calibre-ebook.com/

By: Barry Convex

Barry Convex — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:57:00 +0000

Can he just, you know, upload the pdf?

By: Palomino

Palomino — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:36:00 +0000

Windows & more:
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/a-complete-guide-how-to-download-books-from-google-in-pdf-format/

Thanks for this great post!