Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Book or magazine exchange

 
          Ciao a tutti! Mi chiamo e' Christy e sto imparando l'italiano. Would anyone
like to trade books or magazines with me? Here in the USA it is hard to find
books or magazines to read that are written in Italian. I thought maybe
someone who lives in Italy would like to trade some old issues of Italian
magazines or books for some of my old issues of English magazines or books.
This way, we could both get some new material to practice our languages with
and we would only have to pay to ship them to each other. If anyone is
interested, scrivame presto per favore!
        Grazie grazie,
       Christy
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I don't have anything to exchange, but I would like to suggest the
following web site. It is the only Italian newspaper I have been able
to find which is available on the Internet exactly as it is sold on
the newsstands in Italy. It is in PDF format, and you can download the
PDF file for each page.
I download the whole newspaper into one big file automatically, using
the Adobe Acrobat program (the full version, not the reader). If you
have some way to capture web pages automatically, you could do this
also.
http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/
Click on "L'ultima edizione" to go to page 1 of today's newspaper.
If you click on the > in "clicca su > per vedere la pagina del
giornale", you can open the page in PDF format.
If you right click on the ">", you can download the page in PDF
format for reading at a later time.
If you have access to the full Acrobat program, or some
other program which allows web capture, you can create
an html file with the URL for each web page, then open the
html file in Acrobat (or whatever other program you use for
web capture), click on "Web capture/append all links on page".
If the html file is more than one page, you will have to repeat
"append all links on page" for each page of the html file.
This will download the entire newspaper into one big file,
which you can save as a pdf file (050922.pdf).
http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/giornale/2005/09/22/01.pdf
http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/giornale/2005/09/22/02.pdf
http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/giornale/2005/09/22/03.pdf
http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/giornale/2005/09/22/04.pdf
- - - - - -
- - - - - -
http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/giornale/2005/09/22/48.pdf
Today's paper happens to be 48 pages, which is the average
size of the newspaper, but often it is much larger or much
smaller.
If you have a broad-band connection, I would also suggest
http://prod-raiclicktv.fastwebnet.it/raiclickpc/secure/homePage.srv
This is the home page for Raiclick web, which offers about
1500 streaming video programs, including 9 daily newscasts.
It requires Windows Media player, and a connection speed
greater than 300kbps.
You may already have these dictionary sites, but I'll post them
anyway.
http://www.garzantilinguistica.it/
http://www.hoepli.it/dizionari.asp
http://www.oxfordparavia.it/
http://www.sapere.it/tca/MainApp
http://www.wordreference.com/
Joe from Massachusetts

 PDF file for each page.
You can read the front page of "La Stampa" as PDF
http://www.lastampa.it/edicola/PDF/1.pdf
Besides, "La Stampa" let's you download a "compact" edition, called Dayfax,
fewer pages, but just like those of the paper sold on the newstands.  Is's
in PDF format too.
http://www.lastampa.it/edicola/pdf/dayfax.pdf
Or, you can read all the articles of "Il Messaggero" (though not as PDF but
as plain text, which I like better), and even search past issues, on
http://ilmessaggero.caltanet.it/
Other newspapers let you read just some articles or parts of them, unless
you are a paying subscriber.
 
-- 
Enrico C
...still legal tender...


I used to download the pdf versions of  "L'Arena" from Verona,
"Il Giornale di Vicenza", and "Bresciaóggi" until they started
charging a fee for the pdf versions. I still read the "Giornale
di Vicenza", because I spent a lot of time in Vicenza, and I like
to keep up with the news there.
As far as I know, there are no English-language newspapers
on the internet in pdf format which can be accessed without
paying a fee.
The "Los Angeles Times" used to be free in pdf format,
but not any more. The "New York Times" has been charging
a fee for the pdf version for several years now.
Joe from Massachusetts

 a fee for the pdf version for several years now.
Yet, according to this piece of news, The New York Times had to dismiss 500
employees because, they say, young people rather read free online papers!
http://www.lastampa.it/blog/default.asp?ID_articolo=275&ID_blog=2

Thank you both for all of your helpful information about the newspapers. I
am anxious to try some of the websites that were suggested. My problem is
that I currently only have internet access at work and this limits what I am
able to view and download. Our home computer "called it quits" a few months
ago and we haven't replaced it yet. I miss my computer! I never realized how
much I had come to rely on it until I lost it. At any rate, thank you again
for the suggestions and the advice.
Mille grazie!
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 I miss my computer! I never realized how much I had come to rely on it until I lost it.
Did it show a window reading "I need to spend some time alone. You know, to
figure out what I really want. Bye 4.0".
Bye, FB
-- 
No point in crying over spilt husband.
(The Cheap Detective)

 of course!], as opposite to national or multi regional ones.
"L'Arena", "Il Giornale di Vicenza", "Bresciaóggi", and "Il Giornale
di Brescia" all have the same pdf layout, so I suspect the same
graphics company is responsible for setting up their printing.
"L'Arena" and "Il Giornale di Vicenza" are published by the same
company. Many pages are identical, and the front pages are nearly
identical.
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