Best new ways to rip cds in 2026

UK CD sales peaked in 2001, when we bought 225.9 million discs worth £2.2 billion. Convenient, affordable and genuinely excellent in quality, the compact disc was, and remains, a format valued by list

In your answer to Tom Rathbone’s question about ebook formats (Issue 724, page 69) you could have mentioned the app ReadEra (https://readera.org). I installed it on my iPad earlier this year and it su

Technology keeps getting smarter, more reliable and more cloud-based, and old-school backup regimes have fallen by the wayside. Many of us remember the days of copying key files onto floppy disks at t

Spurred on by my wife’s wish to revisit her old CDs, but to ‘not get too hi-fi about it, Chris’, I needed something compact and engaging for her tiny home office. This little beauty ticks all the boxe

There’s mounting evidence to suggest that more people than ever are switching to Linux. Take the recent announcement from the makers of Zorin OS – the most Windows-like Linux distro – that it had been

This year has seen some huge reissue campaigns, with long-awaited cuts from Pink Floyd, Genesis, Rush, Mike Oldfield and many more all getting the deluxe treatment. We’ve collated our writers’ favourites to create a list of the Top 20 Best Reissues from 2025. Read on!