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I dropped my printed US S&T subscription too as I found the magazine getting thinner and thinner. I was always annoyed why the publisher chose to go from the flat bind version to the stapled version just three issues short of a complete year and ever since then I have felt the magazine has gone downhill. Mind you having the Australian version with many articles duplicated meant one had to go and now that the Aussie version is not monthly perhaps the US S&T could be sold at the news stands again should anyone want to buy an issue occasionally.
I was still on the S&T mailing list and I got a promotional offer to subscribe to the online edition of S&T for 6 months. I forget the cost but it was ultra cheap. The magazine has everything the printed issue has but I find I tend to read it less. You can flick through pages just like the real thing and the pages look darker toward the bind in the centre also just like the real thing. All the ads are there to unlike the archives which have the ads removed. The magazine is read using Adobe Air but is also available as a PDF download.
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