READER INPUT
Where makers tell their tales
and offer praise, brickbats,
and swell ideas.
Hey, glad you like the pics. I actually ended up
bringing both MAKE and Consumer Reports down
the river. Despite how weathered MAKE was by the
end, Consumer Reports didn’t have a chance — it
was practically torn to pieces.
Alan sent us this email after we saw his
pictures on Flickr of a waterlogged MAKE, Volume
03 that barely survived a river rafting trip, and we
offered to replace it.
Thanks for making such an interesting (and OK, MAKE is the best damn magazine I’ve ever
robust) magazine; it’s always a must-read for me, gotten. Period. Let’s just get that out of the way.
and yes, I would love a replacement copy. Thanks I’m going to keep getting it. In fact, when I got the
for the offer. email saying that if I upgrade to a premiere mem-
Keep on makin’ MAKE. bership, I’d get FULL ACCESS TO THE DIGITAL
—Alan Joyce EDITIONS, I thought, “Now THAT’S what a maker
would want!” Right?
I just had a brief email discussion with Eric Aw, jeez. Actually, it is what a maker would want,
Wilhelm, the author of the Halloween article in Vol. but what this actually is isn’t that. What a maker
03 of MAKE. He was extremely helpful in ironing out would want is a real, honest-to-gosh PDF file.
a few wrinkles in my understanding of the project Searchable text and all that. Come on, folks, I’ve got
(not the fault of the article, just my own knowledge a dual 2.0GHz G5 with Spotlight and space on my
gaps), and in the course or our discussion, he sug- portable drive for eBooks out the wazoo, and here
gested I contact the MAKE team to let them know I can only get a bunch of rendered images that will
that this was the type of article that is right down print to enormous, awkwardly laid-out, non-search-my proverbial alley … so that’s what I’m doing! able PDF. Bleah.
I subscribed to MAKE sight-unseen after reading Anyhoo, it just seemed odd since this is a maga-a blurb about it on SFGate a number of months zine that’s had brilliant criticism of bonehead DRM,
ago, and I haven’t been disappointed in the least. and this implementation feels like just that. Then,
The Halloween article especially appealed to me it’s probably just a tech issue, but I thought you
because I’ve always had a nagging interest in how should know how it reads.
to interface with objects external to a computer, AWESOME MAGAZINE and well done!
and now I know. I have no idea how I’ll actually use —Simon Tarr
the project, but that makes little difference — I just
want to build it. I suppose this suggests a desire My son made the potato gun and was totally
for more projects where the obvious “cool” factor successful in so doing. Thanks for putting out
is appreciated by geeks and non-geeks alike. More a great magazine that looks beautiful but more
Halloween fun and less how-to-turn-your-PSP-into- importantly, got my video-obsessed kid reading.
a-web-server … maybe. Much appreciated! The trees in our backyard are
Keep up the outstanding work. taking a pounding, however...
—Steve Borgstrom
—Rick Kleffel
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