How to Read Popular Online Magazines for Free without Subscribing?

How to Read Popular Online Magazines for Free without Subscribing?
August 1, 2009 under Hacks, Firefox Tips	Tweet

Just as the weekend is coming up, this tip will surely make you spend a lot of time in front of the monitor. We all know popular digital magazines like Popular Mechanics, Playboy, Macworld, PC Magazine because of their popular editorials, high quality graphics and ofcourse brand names, require a certain subscription charge to read online. Whatif you get to read all for free?

Not only can you read them, you may even save the pages in your desktop for offline reading and archiving purpose. And of course what you will read are actually latest versions of the magazines.

List of Popular Magazines that can be Read for Free

This tip will let you read any digital magazines that are exclusively available for iPhone users online including the following ones available at zinio.

Get free access to the most popular online magazines

U.S. News & World Report, Playboy (Adult), Saveur, Popular Photography, Men’s Health, Kiplinger’s, Popular Mechanics, Penthouse (Adult), Viv, Car and Driver, PC Magazine, Elle, Technology Review, Outside, Macworld, Esquire, NME, Macworld Espana, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, BlackBook, Foreign Policy, iPhone Life

A bunch of other mags are also available at texterity. Lets now discuss the tip.

Read Popular Online Magazines from Zinio for Free without using iPhone

(Zinio coverts popular magazines/books into image format and offers them for free to the iPhone users)

Open Firefox and follow these simple steps:

Go to this page and install User Agent Switcher, an addon for Firefox
Once you restart your browser, add a new user agent manually by following these steps:
- Go to Tools > Default User Agent > Edit User Agents > New > New User Agent…
- In the Description field write: My iPhone
- In the User Agent Field write:
- Now click Ok and close the settings window.
Now go to www.zinio.com/iphone and start reading your favorite magazine for free!

Thanks a ton to Scott for the tip!

In my next post I will show you how to Quickly Download Your Favorite Magazines from Zinio for Free for Offline Reading.

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9 Responses to How to Read Popular Online Magazines for Free without Subscribing?

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Surender Sharma on August 18, 2009

Thanks for the great news sources.

Himanshu on September 8, 2009

Thanks for the tips, I am going to use it on my browser right now.

AutoSpector Inspections on September 29, 2009

I am going to try this out…thanks for the tip. If it works you are my hero!

vk1 on October 8, 2009

It does not work now… firefox 3.5

Ronny on October 8, 2009

Zinio got smarter

Sunny Bhasin on November 11, 2009

The best thing i liked is that we can download these books and read them when offline
I am using Flock which supports firefox addon , so is there anything more i need to configure in it???
Thanks

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