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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good little magazine for your features and entertainment fix, April 23, 2008
This review is from: PopMatters (Kindle Edition)
"PopMatters" is a useful, entertaining addition to my Kindle. You get a new edition every day containing a variety of movie, DVD, book, music, and video game reviews, as well as a "people" feature or two. Check out the "PopMatters" Web site on your computer if you want to sample the kind of material you'll receive, as your Kindle edition draws content right from that site. Another recent review is correct, however: as well as giving you new material, each new issue pulls along much of the content of previous issues. But new articles, features, and reviews appear at the top of each issue's sections (which are entitled "Think", "Listen", "Watch", "Read", "Play", and "In Person"), so they're easy enough to find. Every few days I delete the old issues, but I suspect they'd eventually disappear on their own if I let them hang around long enough.
6/18/08 postscript: I still enjoy "PopMatters", but have decided that purchasing a single issue once or twice a month is a better way to enjoy its content than a regular subscription. In other words, the comments of reviewer "Kate" are resonating more with me now than they did initially. As Kate pointed out, a new issue arrives every day but only about 5 or 10 percent of the issue is new stuff. The rest is material you've already seen. And for me, that small annoyance fuels three larger ones: 1) Each issue takes up a good chunk of Kindle memory and does not eventually disappear (as I thought it would) until you manually delete it. 2) You'll NEED to periodically delete those old issues to get that memory back. 3) Even then you'll still see tons of deleted PopMatters issues taking up space in your Content Manager area, as they are still listed as being stored at Amazon for you. For these reasons, PopMatters would work so much better on the Kindle as a blog than a magazine. Until that happens, I'll just pick up a single issue now and then.
Note: Amazon frequently updates the presentation and functionality of Kindle blogs and periodicals, so as this review gets older, it may no longer accurately describe the current version of this product.
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PopMatters - Repeats Stories Over and Over, April 22, 2008
This review is from: PopMatters (Kindle Edition)
I'm in my 14-day trial period. Maybe I'm missing something, but every day I download the new issue, I find multiple stories repeated from previous issues. For example, a review of the book Quiet Please by Scott douglas has ran in at least the last 6 or 7 issues, maybe more.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
... a.k.a The Buffy Magazine, March 22, 2011
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I like some of the articles in here, but it would be nice if they could go maybe two days without an article about Joss Wheaton and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There's so much more to American pop culture than those.
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