Excellent Magazine And so easy to read on my 10 inch tab. I do need to scroll in to read some of the smaller print ads, but I like the idea that it still has the layout of a magazine. If you find that you need to scroll in constantly, it may be time to see your optometrist and stop complaining that everything isn't made to fit into your little world perfectly...it's likely the same pride that won't let you admit you need reading glasses or a stronger lens perscription. The magazine subscription is just fine. Try rotating your tablet end for end instead of trying to read it in widescreen. And for those who complain about the price...why did you bother to order it in the first place if it broke your budget as such? If your kid needs new shoes, dump the app and get some shoes, don't fault the developer for your over consumeristic bent that won't allow you to balance your budget...seek out financial councel and get the help you need. Just stop blaming app developers for your 'in a perfect world' attitudes. Thank you PopSci for giving us the nostalgia of an actual magazine in a digital environment. I paid $7.99 for my annual subscription and I just can't seem to get debt free anymore. Darned magazine.

Horrible Reading Format Expensive to purchase, especially considering that the format the magazine is delivered in makes it almost impossible to read. I constantly have to zoom in and out to read the magazine on a 10 inch tablet, there are pages that in landscape and portrait but cannot be read because the newsstand app will rotate if you try to read the page the correct direction. The experience could be improved if the publisher actually tried using it. I especially appreciated that the magazine is simply scanned, with no thought given to the fact that it is now in a digital medium. Links cannot be clicked, there is no rich media, and it still costs about the same as the paper version. The website for the magazine is a better experience on a digital device and most of the content there is free. Also the amount of ads in the magazine are ridiculous, you could sell the advertising for twice as much if it was clickable - and then cut the amount of ads in half.

Save a tree, snub an idiot Really? There is no shortage of trees. What a shortsighted and ignorant post. No maybe arguing that the subscription price online is the same if not more in certain cases would be better. Seriously though, there is a reason that loggers don't just mow down our forests anymore! It isn't just because of over-logging, but also due to the fact that the side effects of clear cutting forests are too great. Not to mention the displacement of thousands of species of wildlife and even the endangerment & extinction!

RIP PS A painful magazine to read. The format of both the print and online are horrible. Popular Science was good years ago but has decided to cut the number of issues in half and it appears they must have given up on the 'science' part of their name as well. I suspect they have dismissed a number of their qualified writers in an effort to prolong there inevitable death as a magazine. You will find more science in Mad Magazine.

People complaining 4.99 is too much... 4.99 is the price for ONE magazine. It is expensive if you were to buy only one physical copy in a store also. For cheaper price you would subcribe two way - monthly or yearly. 1.99 for monthly subscription equaling 23.88/year (I'm sure people have their reason for month-to-month subscription.) or14.99 for yearly subscription equaling 1.25/month

99 cent September Issue - GOOD! Previously I complained about the pricing being to high. With the print edition we could get a year for $12 which included the cost of paper and shipping. Well I just noticed that the September 2013 issue is 99 cents. I purchased it. If you can keep prices like this or cheaper on the digital issues, which are much harder to share and theoretically much cheaper to distribute, I'm all for that. Unfortunately this is for the individual issue. For some reason the yearly subscription is more than 99 cents per issue. I bumped my rating from 1 star to 3 stars. I'll make it higher if you can match the $6 yearly subscription price of the iPad release. Platform price discrimination is really the only thing holding Popular Science back in the digital realm.