The Complete National Geographic Archive On A Hard Drive

My dad has been a lifelong subscriber to National Geographic. Every month a new issue would show up on the coffee table in the living room. We had a bookcase, a tall Ikea one, that was half full of the yellow magazines. I can still remember the smell of the ink drifting up from the pages, printed with photos of fabulous images. Then my mom got some new couches and the bookcase full of the magazines disappeared.

But now he, and every other National Geographic enthusiast, can have all of those issues. Like the New Yorker and Rolling Stone, National Geographic is offering every single issue on a 160 GB hard drive.

So what do you get?

Every magazine has been scanned in high resolution. Pictures, articles, maps, and even the ads are included. You can browse by location or read articles from lists created by National Geographic. There’s also a quiz and a DVD shows how the magazine is created. To top it off, there is a  100 GB partition for your personal use so you won’t have too many hard drives cluttering your desk.The UI is familiar to those with Cover Flow from iTunes.

The hard drive is a big improvement on the previous collection which was just DVDs. This will cost you $199 plus shipping. Sadly, this only ships to the United States and Canada.

So look for this on the Review Crew Gift Guide 2010!

[National Geographic via Gadget Lab]