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Could have sworn they did this years ago. I even have the first 80 years or whatever on DVD in the closet.
by NoMoreNicksLeft 10mo ago
Could have sworn they did this years ago. I even have the first 80 years or whatever on DVD in the closet.
- ghaff 10mo agoWhen a lot of content was being put out on CD/DVD, a number of publications did but they are not straightforwardly accessible these days because they're usually on an old version of Windows. (Yes, if you want to make a project of it, you can probably get into them but has never been worth it for me.)
- fsckboy 10mo agodoesn't wine have old versions of mswindows pretty much nailed?
- zorked 10mo agoI think the disc release GP is talking about had files in DjVu format.
- haunter 10mo agoUsually Windows/Wine is the much better case than the old Mac apps (32bit, PPC etc) in the age of Apple Silcon https://old.reddit.com/r/thenewyorker/comments/1jlhrve/instructions_for_installing_the_complete_new/ https://old.reddit.com/r/thenewyorker/comments/1jlhrve/instr... Breaking the DJVU DRM would be the perfect solution though
- qingcharles 10mo agoIt has been broken. I actually have the set on my desk ready to rip, I just couldn't find my USB DVD drive. Here's a link to the guy that broke it: https://github.com/reconSuave/PlayboyPDF/ https://github.com/reconSuave/PlayboyPDF/
- NoMoreNicksLeft 10mo agoLast I checked, he had Playboy and Rolling Stone ready, but not New Yorker. Any updates?
- kopirgan 10mo agoI have the MAD archives bought in 90s on CDs but can't use..
- ghaff 10mo agoI have MAD archives somewhere. I thought they were in some standard format but maybe not. A lot of the gen 1 or so CD content isn't easily accessible although a more industrious person could probably get to it in some manner.
- kopirgan 10mo agoI have the CD backed up as ISO files which I can mount. Since these days laptops don't have CD players. Need to try on latest windows 11 I gave up earlier. For a while had a windows 2000 virtual machine that worked.
- haunter 10mo agoThe issues on the Absolutely MAD DVD (1952-2005) are just plain PDF files, no DRM, they work perfectly https://files.catbox.moe/x4np6u.png https://files.catbox.moe/x4np6u.png
- ghaff 10mo agoThe CDs I have seem to be proprietary for Windows from the late 90s. But I also have PDFs through 2005 on my computer which I must have "acquired" at some point.
- haunter 10mo agoThe browser app might be some outdated Windows application, that's the case with the MAD DVD too, but you can find the actual issue files in some folders
- kopirgan 10mo agoYes the file names are something unknown. It has a software to access. They did a damn good job. For instance, in Disk 1, there is a big binary file mad.m1 492MB. That seems to hold content, but not sure what file type or which program can open it. Rest of the files are very small.
- mekael 10mo agoSurprisingly, this has been a project I’ve been tinkering with for years. There is an easy way to get the raw png/jpeg files out, but it does require a windows box. Im planning on working on it more over the long holiday.
- smelendez 10mo agoIf I’m reading this correctly, they now have all their historic articles loaded into their CMS. I think they previously just had a system where you could page (and maybe search?) through scans of old issues, which is also cool but not as versatile.
- throwup238 10mo agoNormally when laymen say "digitized" they mean one of two things: scanned images in a PDF or fully transcribed (and possible formatted) text extracted from the scan. The Complete New Yorker you're thinking of was mostly the former, with a bit of indexing (table of contents pointing to the PDFs if I remember correctly). This latest digitization project does the latter, transcribing the text into their existing content management system and as far as I can tell, preserving much of the formatting. This comes with full text search, allows cross linking between articles, and all that good stuff. I suspect that since they include an LLM summary and started this digitization project in early 2024, this was enabled by LLMs.