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New York Times launches Adobe AIR-based TimesReader 2.0
by Brad Linder May 11th 2009 at 11:00AM
When you first load TimesReader, you'll see a list of articles from the front page of that day's paper. You can click any article to read the full text and see any pictures. You can also change the date to see any issues from the last week, enter a query in the search box, or flip to a different section of the paper using the sidebar navigation. You can even do the crossword puzzle for each day.
Once you're reading an article you can either go back by hitting the navigation buttons on the top or left of the screen, or you can hit a button to spread out the "pages" of the day's newspaper as if you were flipping through them on your table, helping to re-create the experience of reading the print edition.
There is a bit of a catch though. While you can read all of the articles from selected sections of the paper for free, if you want unlimited access you'll need to pony up $3.45/week for a subscription. Or fire up a web browser and go read the same articles for free on the web.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
aanidaani said 12:14PM on 5-11-2009
Much nicer than the old reader, but really only useful if you already subscribe to the physical paper. Paying $4 extra week is kinda silly.
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Generic said 5:07PM on 5-11-2009
Wow! Just toying with the application but it really is cool. Won't be subscribing though but would still love to use it as is.
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Quikboy said 7:26AM on 5-12-2009
So is WPF dead?
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