Update

Well it's been a while. I took August off to study for work and then in my free time I read mad magazine. More about that in a bit.

In September I was reading books again but here it is February and I've yet to post about any of them.

As for the Mad magazine.  I got the Absolutely MAD Magazine on DVD-ROM.  All the issues up 2005 or so.  I was hesitant about getting this as many reviews said the quality wasn't very good.

  Well I love it.  I started with 1980 and I'm up to mid 1983. The movie and TV show satires are hilarious. More so if you are familiar with what is being made fun of. They really capture the essence of the show and poke fun at it. Lots of the stories seem familiar. I realized that it's not because I read them originally but because in the big specials they had every quarter or so they would have stories from years past. The only downside to me is that the scans are not good enough to allow you to see the marginals. You can almost make them out but not really. My dad had trouble reading the magazines. Once you increase the size behind a couple 100% it is very hard to read. The scans are just not that good. Sometimes there are wrinkles or problems with the original magazine they scanned that shows up in the PDF files. I've been reading the magazines mostly on my iPhone with very little problems other than the aforementioned marginals.

And the fold ins? Yeah they are there and they get folded in at a click. Pretty sweet.

I plan on posting the rest of the 2010 books before I start with the 2011 books.