Times Reader 2.0 Is Now Available

Times Reader 2.0 is now available to download. This version is powered by Adobe AIR and will run equally well on Windows , Mac and Linux computers. With this latest release, Times Reader resembles the printed paper even more closely, and it updates every five minutes with the latest news from the Web. For an overview of new features, check my post from last Friday

Times Reader is a subscription product, free to home delivery subscribers, but we are now offering four free sections to allow anyone to experience the product. These include Latest News, the Front Page, Business Day and our Most E-Mailed articles. If you are currently a Times Reader or Home Delivery subscriber, just click the “Log In” link (under “Settings and Help”) and sign in using your NYTimes.com member ID and password. (If you have more than one member ID, make sure you use the one associated with your subscription.)

As always, send questions or comments to timesreader@nytimes.com.

Rob Larson
Vice President, Digital Production, NYTimes.com

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Where do you get these ” four free sections to allow anyone to experience the product”?

I have looked and found no such animal.

Rob, thanks for your fast reply in the E-mail.

The problem for international subscribers is, that you can’t change the country on the billing page. Therefore your adress and postcode is not accepted, and you can’t proceed to the check out.

Hope the problem will be solved. The Reader looks amazing, and I look forward to use it.

Two suggestions:
– fullscreen
– when standing on the frontpage of a section, to have the possibiltiy to use the arrow keys to scroll from one section to the other, like in the old reader for Mac

There appears to be a bug in the Times Reader 2.0 app: sometimes images disappear when I select large font size. This seems to occur exclusively when there is an inset headshot “file photo” image, and does not occur for larger “photojournalist” images. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a limitation of the software?

Problem solved. I log on to the internet using an american VPN, and therefore the billing page automatically thinks I’m in the US. If I do not use the vpn, it detects the IP to my current country, and I can fill out the form and pay. Which i did. (-:

James,

Thanks for your feedback. You said that you wanted “when standing on the frontpage of a section, to have the possibiltiy to use the arrow keys to scroll from one section to the other”

If you use the CTRL key and the arrow key, you can skip to the next section.

Rob

Adobe Air has crashed my system 3 times already. Can we get the Silverlight one back?

Excellent! Best features:
1. The download-and-take function means I don’t need to have an online connection to read today’s paper – or the sections of the Sunday paper I trashed the other day. (Plus, I get to finish the crossword puzzle now.)
2. The video page is among the best I’ve ever seen – including the WSJ site – and videos run well on both PC and Mac (although not when I’m offline).
3. Two options to browse – by table of contents, or by page “flipping” – and the CTRL/arrow key navigation are intuitive and easy.

Ok, it’s the third comment I write, it’s borderline spam, sorry for that. However…

Previously I used the Times Reader for Mac. I live in Asia, and therefore I can’t get the International Herald Tribune delivered until late in the afternoon. Which is no good. Therefore, with the Reader I could enjoy my morning paper with my ditto coffee.

However, with the new Times Reader, you only get todays paper. So with the time difference I now only have access to yesterdays paper in the morning. Not good. So I switched back to the old Reader, so I can read todays articles.

I don’t know how many subscribers you have in a similar situation. Also, I don’t know how reliable your net statistics would be. I for instance use a US based VPN to connect to the (uncensored) internet.

Couldn’t you, in the reader, make it possible to switch between the print edition and all articles? Something like on the website, where you can switch between Global Edition and NYT.

Or perhaps make a reader for the IHT?

“and will run equally well on Windows , Mac and Linux computers. ”

Thanks , i will give it a try ( i have an EEE PC with Linux pre-installed )

Wow! What a difference a version number makes. I had given up on the original Times Reader, in large part because it took such a long time to load, and in smaller part because I found it annoying to mix articles from several day’s papers. V2.0 loads quickly, and only with the current edition.

Let me second the suggestion to provide International Herald Tribune content for the Times Reader, maybe just through a new section called something like Enhanced Global (although I’d also like to see IHT op-ed writers and business coverage).

When I try to download Times Reader 2.0 none of the links to the download page work, each gives me the same response – “The specified URL cannot be found”. Has it been removed from downloading?

I have been unable to download and open the new Times Reader on my relatively new mac. Even though I already have Adobe Air, the Times Reader download process tries to load it again, then reports there is not enough room on my hard drive (there is plenty) to load Air, and the process stops.

Using the the Softpedia site, at first seems promising, but the zip file does not open.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks

I’m unable to get the locked material, even though I am logged in and have confirmed that the log in information is tied to my subscription account. Other than that bug, it looks great.

I’m a Times subscriber and have full access on the older Mac version of TimesReader but don’t have it on the new Air version of it? How do I remedy this, please?

Thanks.

I’m a subscriber of the New York Times (the Weekender anyway), and I use my Home Delivery credentials to log in on the TimesReader 2.0, but while I get no feedback that my login failed (leaving the impression that it worked) locked content remains locked. What gives?

I like the format of the TimesReader 2.0, but there needs to be an Extra Large font option for users with high resolution laptop displays. Even the large font is just too small to read comfortably.

Thanks.

Same problem as David, #11.

Thanks for updating the Times Reader. I like the crisp look, and am glad you have worked on continuing to support a multi-platform version.

I have been using Ver 1 consistently, and here are some features that I hope will move to Version 2.

1) Wider choice of font size.
2) Quick navigaton to an article via a drop-down menu next to the section title
3) Save Article feature
4) Across Lite is still a better crossword app than the AIR version (i.e. lack of accelerator keys (i.e. tab). Please don’t stop supporting Across Lite unless the AIR version gets to parity.
5) Section navigation via up/down key when viewing a section home page (not at article level)

Thank you for your efforts.

Okay – I said I love this version, but…. where’s the recipe in the Sunday Magazine? And where are the political cartoons and humor roundup in Week in Review? The stand-alone Travel section is missing too. C’mon, NYT, let’s see it all!

Stuart Rabinowitz May 19, 2009 · 3:27 pm

I agree with Alan #16. The largest text size is still not large enough for me. I’ve got a high resolution display and the text is a bit too small for my taste.

There needs to be an Extra Large option. Version 2 is better then the previous version for the Mac but it’s a far cry from the older Windows Version.

It’s as if they rushed this version. The Technology section is missing which is unacceptable. That’s one of my favorite sections to read.

Folks: if you want the New York times reader to be fixed then you’re going to have to email them (which is what I did). If enough people complain then they’ll take it seriously.

I am logged in uner my subscription account. I have access to all the sections. But articles are missing.

EG: Ross Douthout appears on today’s op ed page on the web but not in Times Reader.

Is this a problem you’re working on?

I don’t like it personally. I love checking out technology articles (I can’t find them) and I’m not crazy about this crossword setup. I’ll probably try to revert back to the old version- I hope I can!

As others noted, this looks very nice. However:

– The number of font choices is too small: the medium size is already almost too large for me, whereas the small size is borderline too small for the resolution of my laptop screen. The same problem existed with version 1 on the Mac (not with version 1 on Windows).

– Is there a way to have access to all sections? Or, if there is only a limited amount of space in the column on the left, to customize the sections displayed there? Notably, the “technology” section has disappeared.

Thank you

Oh, this is so much better! Lightyears better–thanks for listening.

I’ve only read Thursday’s Home section so far, but I do have one concern: it seems (judging by the story about Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz) like we’re still missing a lot of images (even when the images are an essential part of the package) that appear in the print edition. I was happy to see the multiple photos that came with the Ellen Lupton interview, so why are we missing them here? I don’t need a fancy slideshow–just the rest of the art…

But thanks for getting the product this far!

Michelle Stewart May 22, 2009 · 8:49 pm

The AIR version is crashing my system and seems to be a huge install. I am uninstalling.

Can you please keep running the previous version as it worked perfectly.