2011 will mark the 100th Anniversary of Boys Life Magazine. I still remember as a kid being able to browse back issues at my local library. They didn’t have ALL the issues from what I remember, maybe a few years worth, and my discoveries were more serendipitous than anything else.
I recently discovered that every issue of Boys Life magazine from 1911 to 2008 have been scanned and indexed by Google Books. Scouting Magazine is also part of the collection.
The exciting part is not just browsing the collection but in being able to do what Google does best and to search all the back magazines.
If you put in Boys Life in the search field and follow with additional information you can find issues addressing specific subjects as well.
(I tried Boys Life Geocaching, Boys Life Scuba, Boys Life igloo and Boys Life Ninja)
There’s a Google Books app for iPhone and iPad. Currently the apps don’t appear to have access to any magazine content. So pull up a keyboard and a cup of tea and take a search through history.
