Friday, August 31, 2007
Film The Reader archives are free!
Posted by Jonathan Rosenbaum on Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 2:36 PM
The Reader's online archives, which used to charge for a download, go back to 1987, the year I started writing for the paper. My fellow blogger Whet Moser has been posting some highlights.
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Now that that they are officially free, I'll let you in on a little "secret" I was afraid to reveal to any Reader staffer before. Archived articles of the Reader (Hot Type columns, at any rate) have been free for at least the last several years. But there's a catch. I made sure to save the URLs for a couple of my fave Hot Type columns before they disappeared off the 6-week archive. I've never had a problem accessing the columns with those URLs. But now I don't have to feel guilty about it. :-)
It doesn't matter, the search function is a mess.
sndrake and Reader: You're baaaad. As for me I'm going to start digging immediately. Now if only "Quail Egg Incubators Monthly" would open up their archives. Oh, to dream.
For whatever it's worth, most of the long film reviews in the Reader between 1996 and 2001 are archived at http://jump-cut.de/kritiker-rosenbaum.html
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