Model Engineers’ Workshop DIGITAL subscription ?

[j45on]

Does anybody have a digital subscription for "Model Engineers’ Workshop" ?
Does it really have access to an online archive of back issues and is this included in the subscription cost ?
These may seem like daft questions  but it sounds to good to be true  

[matnewsholme]

you only get last few years worth as part of standard digital subscription. There is a separate subscription you can get for the older issues but you have to view them through a very poor viewer which makes it difficult to print pages off (you have to do it a page at a time) and the quality of the scans isnt the best.

[John Stevenson]

It's the same viewer for the new and the old, on screen views are Ok but the printed version comes out pixalated.

A lot of the early versions are just scans and contrary to copyright law they are not complete, some pages of ads are missing and the pages are often not in the correct order.

Have a look at the sample copy on the web site, this will give you an idea of what the online subscription copy is like.

John S.

[j45on]

I signed Up to the web site and paid for my subscription online
Now I have to wait for my subscription code in the snail mail ! 

[j45on]

Two weeks has passed now since I took out my online subscription and I have had enough of waiting
After a week I pm'd david the magazines editor and he emailed subscription.co.uk to chase it up I heard nothing.
Today after spending twenty minutes on hold I was told my subscription would start in MARCH    excuse my french
I promptly told the lady on the phone that this was unacceptable and asked for a refund.

I think I shall stick with reading it in WHsmiths instead.