National Geographic for iPad

I just bought a year's subscription to National Geographic for iPad for  $19.99.  When I first downloaded it, it didn't work.  I had to uninstall in and then download it again.  It was kind of annoying, but once it started working it was great.  Every once in a while it does freeze though, which is extremely annoying The download came with a free daily update about Conrad Anker, Cory Richard, and Mark Jenkins' excursion to Everest.

A great thing about the app is that it makes it really easy to move around the magazine.  In other magazine apps, there's no easy way to go from page 15-140.  You have to flip through all those pages, and for me, that's annoying.  With National Geographic, there's a scroll bar so that you can jump around, and there's also a table of contents with photos and story summaries.  Then you just tap a photo and you're at the story! 

Another great feature is nationalgeographic.com which links to their twitter feed and has updates all the time.

I read a story in it about a bird called a manakin that makes a humming sound with its wings that sounds like a violin.  There was also a video to go with it and it is ridiculously cute.  To woo his mate, the male manakin moon walks on branches while making a ticking noise.

And one more cute thing:

EPILOGUE:

After writing this post, I went to NationalGeographic.com and saw this.  If you can't see it, I'll tell you what it says! it says that you can now get the printed edition, the ipad edition, and the online archives for only $19.99.  This deal was not up yesterday, and I payed $19.99 for just the iPad app.