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I love you David Remnick. The Complete New Yorker just arrived. All issues from 1925 through 2006 on DVD. *faints*

And thanks to

mlleelizabeth for pointing the way.

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You're welcome! And that you for reminding me about it. I almost forgot to order them for myself!

A friend of mine at work got that. Someday when I have time to read and play, I will, too! Enjoy.

I started it this morning with Issue #1. Nice magnification. Easy to read. I definitely recommend it.

I think they've used archival photographs of the pages something like The Library of Congress did with Whitman's journals many years ago, so you see folds in the cover, etc.

Just reading that 1925 masthead gave me chills. :)

Next stop, John Hersey's "Hiroshima." I remember reading that the issue sold out before Einstein could get a copy.

We have fifty years of New Yorker cartoons on DVD along with a volume of selected cartoons. I still haven't looked at the DVD even though I naturally devoured the book. I just can't get used to sitting and reading stuff for pleasure at the computer. Work stuff is different. I'm already suffering, so who cares about the medium?

I'm a few pages into "Hiroshima" now, and between the magnification and the original font it's almost like reading with the magazine in my hands. I did mention to my husband that I might like to print the whole run, but he suggests a half million pages would cost $2,500. Now I could obviously just print the articles I read, but nah. I read fanfiction from the screen, so it's not that big a deal.

Glad to finally have this opportunity to read "Hiroshima." I'd meant to for years.

End of June/beginning of July is upon us. Did you notice all the flooding in the Texas Hill Country? That's where we'd go rafting and tubing on the river. Looks like a terrible time for it. We're talking about going later in the summer when there's less risk of, you know, death. :) Revised plan: Mid- to late-July or early August. Still interested? We could book the trip around your flight. If you wanted to come into Austin or San Antonio we'd pick you up at the beginning of the trip and take you back to the airport at the end.

Sorry I took so long to reply, I've been a bit out of it lately. It's so kind of you (and nature) to extend the deadline. Unfortunately the late July to early August schedule coincides with deadly precision with my dad and his wife's yearly visit to the states (and the kids are in camp for the first three weeks of July, which has already been paid for). Would midAugust be too hot?

Unfortunately, mid-August would indeed be too hot, but that's also when I begin teaching.

We can always put it off until next year. The river isn't going anywhere. :) In fact, if we start planning a year ahead, we probably have a better chance of making it out there -- the weather willing, of course.

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