That's kind of what I was afraid of. If I buy a digital magazine, I want to be able to download it to MY hard drive. Having such a good experience with Quilter's World, I had hopes I could develop my own personal library on the computer and finally get rid of my hundreds of back issues of different quilting mags. I love them, but they take up too much space, weigh too much, and it's too hard to locate a pattern when I want one. But then I started checking out other websites and I didn't see any mention of an ability to download the digital issues. I am loving the Quilter's World pdfs because I can separate out the pages of a pattern and save just that pattern separately for when I need it.
Someone else had mentioned Zinio, so think I will check that out via the library.
I'm interested in some of the Fons and Porter mags, but really don't want to invest money in something I won't like.