I think I speak for many of us when I say that, apart from reading a lot of normal books I also enjoy spending time reading magazines on work related topics and hobbies. This means that we buy on average between 4 and 8 magazines a month. The biggest problem with this is where do you keep all of these magazines? You can only store so much before you need to start throwing them away. Most of the time I want to keep the magazines as I use them to reference back to – sometimes only a couple of months down the line.

When I just got my new iPad, I was enthralled by the notion of the newsstand app where you can subscribe to your favorite magazines, but then realized the magazine subscriptions are mainly for international publications and not the local South African ones I prefer to read.
It was then that I discovered mysubs and zinio, apps that allow you to download almost every local and international magazine. They even have the Afrikaans versions of these magazines available for certain editions.

This immediately solves magazine storage issue as I can subscribe to almost all the magazines I read as well as buy previous editions. My current storage stash can now be dissolved as I acquire my favourites, and I can now carry the whole collection around wherever I go – allowing for ease of access and reference.

You can find these apps and other similar apps on the Apple store or the Android store for your tablet. If you haven’t been able to justify spoiling yourself with a tablet, this just might be a good enough reason to go and get one.