All of Omni Magazine available online and free

+George Greene recently posted a link to Giant Freakin Robot in which David Wharton, the Managing Editor, announced:

The age of the internet has been rough on traditional printed publications. Even major magazines such as People and Time have occasionally struggled as they adapted to the digital age that has more and more people absorbing most of their content digitally. While that ongoing transition has seen the demise of many smaller publications, the magazines that have adapted well, like Wired, are better than ever. There’s another nice perk of the online era when it comes to the magazine world: you can preserve publications and make them available to more people with a scanner and some patience. Case in point: the entire run of Omni magazine is online and readable for free.

Omni magazine was an outstanding publication.   According to the Wikipedia article --

Omni was founded by Kathy Keeton and her long-time collaborator and future husband Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse magazine. The initial concept came from Keeton, who wanted a magazine "that explored all realms of science and the paranormal, that delved into all corners of the unknown and projected some of those discoveries into fiction."

So, where can you find this now-free publication?  Try the Internet Archive.  Click on the "All items (most recently added first)" link at the bottom of the article about Omni to see the issues available.  Once you select an issue, there are several options for viewing it.  One that works well for me is saving it as a PDF.  Just in case you didn't know, you can download Adobe Reader for free.

The ads can be almost as interesting as the articles ;)

-- Marge