Hacking the New York TimesSelect

So I'm a poor college student and I'm always looking out for a good deal, especially if it will help me with school work. A few days ago, The New York Times announced they were opening up their TimesSelect premium content to anyone affiliated with a US college or university, i.e. anyone possessing a .edu email address. As you know, I'm at a university just not in the US. So I was a little disappointed. But, I started thinking about it a bit... I remembered that my alma mater gave me lifetime email forwarding for anything sent to my undergraduate address. Woo hoo! Let the hack begin! Here are some of highlights I'm excited about:

• Access to columnists David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Thomas L. Friedman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas D. Kristof, Paul Krugman and Frank Rich. Notice the economists in there?


• Preview of The Sunday Times before it's published.


• And the best feature... The ability to search The New York Times back to 1851.

I presume most universities offer the email forwarding service to their alumni, which means there are going to be a hell of a lot of people switching to TimesSelect for free. That's a savings of 50 bucks a year! Whether you're a student, faculty member or graduate with a school forwarding address, all you have to do is click here and enter your .edu email address to get started. Enjoy and spread the word via digg or your favorite social bookmarking site.

Comments

[Gregg]

I never knew about TimesSelect..I'll have to do some research and check it out :D

[James Britton]

It's great, you can basically drop your subscription to the paper version. Since I can't a paper version here in Ireland (at least inexpensively) it's especially handy that they are offering this. Keep http://digg.com/tech_deals/Hacking_the_New_York_TimesSelect" rel="nofollow">digging!

[Bryan Baker]

Link time bro...great post.

[James Britton]

Thanks for the linkback :)

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