Playboy Cover to Cover -- the 50's: Searchable Digital Archive--Every Page, Every Issue

Manufacturer: Bondi Digital Publishing, LLC Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$100.00 Our Price:$20.00 Authors: Playboy Bondi Digital Publishing Description: Platform Di Requisiti Of Sistema: Windows 2000 SP2/XP/Vista, Minimum of OS X Of the Mac

Reviews:

The First Decade
This is an incredible bargain! I have loved every minute I've spent reading the wonderful fiction, interviews and reviews. (The works of Ray Bradbury, "A Sound of Thunder" and "Fahrenheit 451" are worth the price!) I heartily recommend this collection, and can barely wait for the decade of the 60's to come! What I remember of the 60's, I remember fondly. :)

Oh, yeah... the pictorials are awesome, as well.


Great idea, terrible execution. Bondi's crippling DRM ruins what could have been a great collection.
There are some reviews of rave here and, for many, they will be stung over. I would want to designate my review like more technically interested discerning target to a public one to the technical characteristics. Many will not be taken care here of the list of the defects under and that one is completely fine. Entirety is large to enjoy this as retrospettivo divertimento American classic, but to perceive the requirement to specify some imperfections egregious for that they are taken care. In the first place, claims of Bondi are making them a favor tying theirs to satisfy in one digital stupid outline them of the administration of rights. It is in fashion from being able to enjoy them we satisfying with greater facility. To many, it will be a headache. Not that their visore of image is terrible. It is right excruciatingly delays confronted as an example to watch the same images in a visore of the pdf like the acrobat. The interface is slow, lazy and insensitive. They are often held to release more than once the keys while aspect the application in order to answer. Really ago the reading of the chore. With the greater part of the visori of the pdf, you can move fastly between the pages. With the system of the Bondi, you must load one (o) pages two to the time. I have examined on a mac for with one large card of the diagrams. Sure it was not my machine that same delaying the things down! While the articles are move to you to increments and even if Are practical for the jump around, therefore it is PDFs!!! Why not as soon as it gives to the customers lime of the pdf and the lascile to use that the apps never free and available they wish? It has not absolutely meant except like DRM mechanism. Bondi drastically has reduced the functionality of this accumulation - one shame. Moreover life limited to the lime guarantees one. If they were jpgs, pngs, or PDFs, we could maintain them to always current, changing the dispositions and the advances of technology. However, the images are blocked via in one classified disposition of the lima. The installation is quickly and reasonably not painful. It has automatically generated a scorciatoia on my table without to ask my permission (to get annoyed itself), but I suppose that it is enough easy to cancel. I it has not tried the installation on blots some multiple, but since no registry of the software is demanded, I is presupposing that you can install the multiple copies. Poichè the software agreement remembers to us, this is one violation of the copyright, so as to it does not make them - but probably latta however. The OH yes - and Bondi assures them that the modernizations of the software carry out the compatibility. The fine press indicates that "the additional taxes can be applied". They could supply the modernizations for free, but then still, they could urge hardly the customers to continue to pay something whom presumed already they bought. Hour on the explorations. Well, they are explorations of quality nearly uguala poichè anyone with a device of normal exploration could make. They are shaken enough in order to find that many of the pages exactly are not levelled. As very we know, it is hard to make the copies perfectly levelled from the sewn matter of the press, but I have presupposed for $100, Bondi I would make a job better than this. The quality of image is nothing of that it astonishes. Once that jumped the pages until to a leggibile format, the quality remarkablly is diminished. Theirs browser give the buzz option to you until to 300%, but to that format, the sembr of the text terrible. The 300% option really works only for the centerfolds. They seem to be explores you to one resolution the much highest one that the rest of the bucket. To be right, the great images of the centerfold seem - great color, great resolution, good amount of particular, etc. Task that is a po' sneaky to fall the resolution for the rest of satisfying however. The entire idea is therefore large that is one shame Bondi Digital that it publishes swept it in on therefore defective. The first error is the paralyzing DRM. The second is the interface silly. The third party is the duration of the life inherently limited which had to the DRM and the interface. The quarter is the amazingly bad quality of the images. Perhaps the playboy in advance payment it is good it cleans up well (, PG-13) the divertimento and is an idea great debit to one new generation the access to this history part American. They are not against the idea at all - he is large. Task hardly that the realization of the idea comes to lack to many levels. If not occupied of the editions that raise over, probably you would enjoy this. If you are on the recinzione, all that can say is, I it hopes R-a.buon.mercato ritrovamento to them it. Not task that is also worthy a going rate of the Amazon of $41. Shame on you, Bondi.


a ton of innocence



Excellent

Ditto to the last review. I received this as a Christmas gift from my wife, and I could not be more pleased. While I have never completely subscribed to the Playboy Philosophy, its fasinating to see its evolution from the beginning and to be able to get a "real time" perspective of 50's culture from that vantage point.


Excellent resource for pop culture articles and essays
Excellent resource for photos, stories and essays. The search function is brilliant! - finds text in all article plus the advertisements too. Built for a Mac too.


Playboy Saves To Your Hard Drive!
I bought Playboy The 50's after how impressed I was with the functionality of Rolling Stone The First 40 Years. I was as equally impressed with Playboy as soon as I installed it. The content is stored on just one disc and very easy to navigate once it loads onto your computer. A convenient feature of the software in particular is how you can view the pages of the magazine. The flip mode allows you to read each issue like a magazine, with two pages displayed. The read mode zooms in on a particular page so it is a lot easier to read. The best feature however is that you can save the disc to your hard drive and never use the disc again!!


A Walk Through History
I have obtained to mine dad the cover of the stone of rolling to the cover regulated for Been born them and have inasmuch as Bondi had freed an entirety for the first decade of the playboy also. Both insiemi are similar the large windows within in order cracking the history of the cultivation. I have transferred the version from the system it centers them towards the satellites of the demo of the software on www.covertocover.com and is easy to use. They are a lot interested to see that what other products have.got to come down the line.


Great content, clunky interface
The content, and the included book, are excellent.

Unfortunately, to view the magazines you have to use clunky software that uses digital-rights management -- which means in a few years, your computer may not work with the reader software, or the company may decide to revoke your permission to read it, and you're stuck with $100 coasters. Avoid!


Birth of an Icon
In 50 years the playboy it was establishing a claim like icona American. These are those years formed to you when the disposition of the playboy is established and the developed traditions. That is a bucket a lot different that we have today, hardly poichè is an age a lot different in the attitudes, the expectations and the cultivation. The reading of the these buckets is a alley of travel memory down or a travel in one time machine, second your age. The cover to cover, is right that what implies. That is the complete bucket like has observed in 195x, without the lacking pages, in publicity, articles, the comic strips, the reviews or the images. In the 50s, the playboy it is known for the women knots. From odierni the champions, they could estimate a PG13 so as to to buy this for the centerfolds it is silly. Wished to but it for the novel, the comic strips and the look in the 50s poichè was month within the month. That is an excellent sense to make that one and the large divertimento. The system of Bondi is easy to use and demands one learning curve much small. The installation is putting the CD in the drive and after the senses. The Search Engine is easy to use and works very well supplying a complete directory. The reading is problem also in the way of the two-page. Since memory to read some of this poichè an adolescent to me, copy of the dad, I am sure I will make very well also. They are much happy one with this purchase and down for enjoying my alley travel memory.


Playboy is more than just pretty girls
I am a huge fan of Playboy Cover To Cover: The 50's. First, Jack Kerouac's On The Road is by far the best book I've ever read. I was ecstatic when I found the article `Before The Road' that he had written in Playboy in 1959! Second, the magazine features cartoons by Shel Silverstein and the writings of Roald Dahl. I never knew they both contributed to the magazine! What a lovely surprise. Playboy has so much more to offer than just scantily clad women. With that said however, the women are absolutely beautiful; no one can work it like Marilyn Monroe did. Besides the content being wonderful, the discs were easy to install, the print was easy to read (thanks to a zoom feature), the packaging was sleek and the copy of the first Playboy ever made was a delightful bonus! I highly recommend this product. I can't wait for Bondi to publish the later years so I can discover other new/old articles by my favorite authors!


Perfect Holiday Gift
It really is about the articles! I just got a copy of Playboy Cover to Cover from a friend a few days ago and haven't been away from my computer since. It's every page of every issue of Playboy in the 50s. It's fully indexed and searchable.

I didn't fully comprehend everything that appeared in Playboy in the 50s. In these pages are stories by Jack Kerouac, Greg Bradbury and Shel Silverstein to name a few. You've also heard about Marilyn Monroe appearing in the first issue of Playboy, now you can see it in its original context.

I particularly enjoy the user interface, it makes searching through over 100 issues very intuitive and very easy. You can search by author, article, etc or simply peruse through the various issues and covers. I definitely recommend Playboy Cover to Cover for the coming holidays.



Facinating Set!
Initially, when I have felt to speak about Bondi Digital to publish to put towards the outside this with and the stone of rolling: The first 40 years are regulated to you, I more were interested in the regulated stone of rolling until that you did not realize all the roba fantastic included in playboy: The 50s. I have taken the entrambo and I can say that honestly I have spold more time that digging through the large comic strips and articles in with of the playboy. I have not realized how many large authors have been publishes to you during the first years of the bucket. The short articles and the history from the authors appreciate Jack Kerouac, beam Bradbury and John Steinbeck, comic strips from Shel Silverstein and illustration from Alberto Vargas. Naturally, there are the beautiful companions, but there are therefore much more to this entirety that hardly the images of the women knots. The reproduction of the press of the first emission of the bucket is a ossequio wonderful and I have not obtained a probability to dig in the book of the coffee table (than what I have leaf through with the sembr large, benchè). Bondi really has struck it from the park with these two insiemi, I really is excited in order to see that what is exiting with after.


A Decade in Box Never Looked So Good!
A critic more in advance payment has thought that it was a problem that the lime of the edition is not pdf Perhaps does not have experience a lot of these things, but us it is not absolutely nothing to preoccuparsi approximately because it is a part of the cake converts in pdf if wished to them. And you do not have sure need of "hack" a dark one... in fact, is MAC that the PC has the ability to convert the lime to right from the function of the press. In order to make that one, it opens an edition in the reader of bondi and then it goes to the normal dialogue of the press like if you were going to print and instead of chosen of the printer, select the press to option of the Made pdf. Conserve one copy of the lima in the disposition of the pdf to your hard drive. After that you can open the lima in all the application that opens PDFs. Hour why you would wish to make that they are an other history... you the functionality would untie all that the software of bondi gives you to the search and passes in review... but if you think them to need a support, it is an option. Hour for the rest of the review... in the first place of all the presentation is only fantastic. I loved the elegant one planned sink, however diminished box-regolisi, than it is opened in order to reveal the regulated 2-DVD on one side and a beautiful book of the table of coffee from the other side. Moreover they include one new faithful edition of the first emission of the playboy, with Marilyn Monroe (than on relative the own sales for $25 on the place of playboy) the book, the new edition and with of DVD they exit from with of the box it, that it is pleasant because you can take the regulated DVD to your calculating and the book and the bucket are based with wherever you appreciate to read. But the real star is the digital archives them and all those great emissions of the playboy from the 50s. that it watches the first decade of the playboy in its totality as this must travel behind to time to an America war of the starter shaft that was trying little levity. The illustrations are more playful and peek boo that nothing other - Vargas really comes to life. The first edition is abundantly luminosity that this was going to be a bucket that has characterized the good writing... with the contributori of the world-code category an abundance. The software is fast to load and the interface is polishes - perhaps it was more of importance easy to calculate towards the outside like works and the found one in on and reading without really thinking uniform to this purpose. They have explored every edition, front part in order to support (therefore cover noma in order to regard the guess) of... so that the average ones that you obtain to read entire editions, comprised the ads for annotations of Jazztone, bongos and the Czech aluminum automobiles of Skoda of the motor. When an edition is opened in the sight way, launch the pages and then you can zumare quickly within on qualche.cosa that you wish to read. There are orders of express-key for that like they. I have a small wheel of the coil and roll up hardly down as I read. The experience is easy and the found one to read and to the edition after edition of fast reading some old formidable great articles. The edition of January 1957, as an example, has a small gem, the short history of Walter Tevis, the hustler, that it has been adapted some years more subsequently for the film of Paul Newman of the same name. Moreover really it is interesting in order to pass in review the covers simply. The design of the playboy was progressive and well in front of the relative time with towards the outside the 50s. When you see all the covers taken with this sense, it is an impressive body of job with a free sense of emersione of art sense. When found something that you appreciate them just release the cover and the digital edition them opens so as to you can read them. The interesting thing is like can try and pass in review, however. In the age of the search bar, we are used to try the style of the google. But it says that appreciate the Bradbury beam and wished to see all that it has written? It is much easy one to use "passes in review for the category function" makes that one. I have begun typeing Bradbury and immediately it pulls on all the parts that have written. A search function "" would find only the mentions of the word "Bradbury", not necessarily that what has written. Therefore for the location de all the systems of a specific contributore the software of bondi it render one crack real. Once that found an article, you can or directly go to it to read it, or saves a connection to it in your "reading lists", that it is characteristic small nifty that leaves them more subsequently to compile the lists of the selections for the reading. The book that comes with it, of the covers, the 50s, is like a copy of the album of the Hef and would make large a book independent. With many ephemeral images and things that have not been never published, the book supplies a rich behind-history to the digital archives them and says to the history of the development of the bucket. As an example, we learn to the beginning of the book that the mother of the Hefner has invested $1,000 in the launch of its new enterprise... and sees its letter of the thankses real to she... that she makes sure ringraziare its mai-$$$-PIÙ because recognizes that necessarily it has not accosentito with that same making. In this way the book follows the beginning in on through to 1960 and has many of personal letters of the Hef, the notes, sheets of the contact marks to you with its selections, with the comment much from others taken of means approximately the bucket. All in all a great value and a narcotic sense to perceive the first decade of playboy in it the interezza. To wait for with eagerness to see that what makes for years 60


Collectable!
Like person sopportata in ' 60, it is much difficult one to have an entire image that what has appeared in ' 50 of the playboy, the bucket of the more famous adult within universal. Consequently, this release gives one probability important to read to all the pages to us in playboy during entire ' the 50. The price is good, it even includes one reprinted copy of the first edition, this worthy more than bought USD30 if exclusively. The package of the hardcover is moreover in the design prize. Worthy every dollar has paid and moreover I observe in ahead to the relative future release for ' 60, ' 70, ' 80 and therefore via. It goes to the Web site of the playboy to see, how much for a copy of all the edition in ' 50, you can see that this so as to is justified to pay if appreciate a reader of the playboy.


This is a beautiful collection, works great, nice gift for holidays.
I bought the Playboy Cover-to-Cover DVD set for myself because I was culturally curious about the magazine (I am a woman) from its early years and I wanted to review it as a potential holiday present for my 80-year-old father. I figured my Dad might enjoy a ride down memory lane, providing this product was easy enough to use for an older person. I read the first review but know better than to credit any one negative review, and boy, was I right!

First, I ran the DVD on Windows Vista and it ran flawlessly. I scanned through many of the issues and played with the navigation. For any technically savvy person who ever used a PDF, navigation is a breeze. While it is not a PDF, it is similar enough for a quick knowledge transfer. The Playboy Cover-to-Cover DVD set installed quickly, loaded the default first issue (Hello Marilyn!), and from there all other issues were loaded from the second DVD. I found moving from issue-to-issue no problem at all. My Dad will have NO problem using this software.

I bought this product to read magazines, and it is easy to navigate through the individual articles just like you would with a normal magazine. You can open issues, save reading lists, search by author, article name, and so on...and it was EASY. Personally, I found the entire experience so good, that I also bought the Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover DVD set at well.

For Mac users, I am also pleased to note that these DVDs also loaded up on my new Leopard MacBook Pro. If you are looking for a great gift for any person who wants to see what all the articles are about (sic), look no further. The beautiful packaging, and exceptional content make this a much better gift than something boring like slippers for Dad! Thank you Bondi for giving me something I know Dad will LOVE for this holiday season!


What a fantastic treat!
Cover of the playboy to cover -- years 50 it is a fantastic collection and the travel in the sense behind works that it offers glimpse a narcotic in the history of our cultivation as the America was alteranda and influenzanda from the important enormous launch of the bucket of the playboy. 50 years more subsequently, using the reperibile technology of DVD, every single page from beginning in 1953 through working to December of 1959 is reproduced. Every letter announcement, column every, every review record and yes, every centerfold. Ché incredible machine and insightful of time to sift with cultural archaeology this accumulation represents. I cannot wait for the edition of years 60. The packing is formidable and reproduction even comes with one to align of the first edition humble comprised the M. Monroe and Sherlock Holmes.



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