Would you like to know what Consumer Reports has to say about a product before you buy it? Easy! Just pull out your Austin Public Library Card and log in to the Austin Public Library’s database pages. The full text of the magazine including photographs and charts is available online from the most current issue back to January, 1991.
In addition to Consumer Reports, hundreds of other magazines including Fortune, Art in America, Texas Monthly, Money, Real Simple, Highlights for Children, PC World, Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, and Psychology Today are available in full text through the MasterFILE Premier and our other databases. Many are available in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat) with images.
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