How To Read Magazines Online For Free


Why would one like to pay for something, if he could get the same for free of cost. Finding free magazines online is not at all a heavy task now. If you believed it was, then once you are done reading this post, you would surely change your believe.

Now you can easily find and read magazines online for free. And the list includes US News Playboy, Mens Health, MacWorld, Car and Drive, Penthouse, ELLE, Viv, PC Magazine, Kiplingers, Esquire, Technology Review, Popular Photography.

I would be sharing few number of ways which would serve to your need of reading magazines online for free. Check them out and see which one works out for you.

Best Ways To Read Magazines Online For Free

METHOD 1

This is the simplest and quickest way to find and read magazines online for free. All you need to do is, log on to Mygazines.net and then register yourself to it. There you can find number of good old magazines.

METHOD 2 (If you are using Firefox)

There is an online service, Zinio which offers you with free magazines online, but only on iPhone and iPad. If you try to access the same from your PC, you would need to pay for the service. But we have trick this service, by which the browser will treat your machine as iPhone and would let you read magazines online for free.

If you are using Mozilla Firefox, then download and install an addon, User Agent Switcher. Once your browser is restarted, navigate as follows. Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options which will open a window.

Now on the left panel, click on the User Agents option. And you would now be displayed with the list of the different user agents. If you find Mobile Safari 2.2.1 – iPhone, choose that option and click on OK button.

But if you did not find it over there, click on the Add button. This will open one more window, and will ask you to enter values in fields like Description, User Agent, App Name, App Version and few more. All you need to do is, enter Mobile Safari 2.2.1 – iPhone in each and every field.

And the click on OK button which would add it to the list. Click on the Safari option in the list and then on the OK button again. Now get on to Zinio and start reading magazines online for free.

METHOD 3 (If you are using Safari)

You need not do stuff to get an iPhone user agent enabled if you are working on Safari. All you need to do is, navigate as follows. Edit > Preferences > Advanced and check on the option labelled as Show Develop menu in menu bar.

Now click on the Develop button on the Main Menu and then choose Mobile Safari 2.2.1 – iPhone as the User Agent. Now get on to Zinio and start reading magazines online for free.

If you have followed Method 2 or 3, do not forget to switch back to the normal mode once you are done reading magazines online. So you can read magazines Playboy and Penthouse online for free. Let us know if you have liked this wonderful post on free stuff.

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November 16, 2011 by: Prasanth Chandra

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