Have you ever wished you could have every single New Yorker article from 1925 to April 2006 at your fingertips? Tired of flipping through the piles and stacks which take up three bookshelves just to dig up that piece on Garcia Lorca's burial grounds or a piece of fiction worth snuggling up with?

Well, for $300 you can get "The Complete New Yorker" — and entire DVD archive of the most coveted bylines in the biz. The "I won't take your gossip" New Yorker blogger Emily Gordon has found her dream Christmas gift, and we're pretty sure there are a few of you out there who would cream over the concept of "instant access to every article, review, poem, illustration, and cartoon, exactly as it originally appeared in the magazine." Especially you delicate few who have managed to land a piece of published work in the pub.

In one of the first digital publishing initiatives of its kind, The New Yorker will release its comprehensive “The Complete New Yorker” archive on a hand-sized portable hard drive, it was announced today by Pamela Maffei McCarthy, Deputy Editor.

Read the full announcement, and cry for the N+1 crew who don't make enough between them to revel in what is surely their dream come true.

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The USB-powered drive, which will retail for $299, represents an evolution of “The Complete New Yorker,” which incorporated the entire archive on eight DVD-ROMs and was released last year. Featuring the same program and design as the DVD collection, the hard drive contains every page of every issue of The New Yorker from February 1925 to April 2006—more than 4,000 issues and 500,000 pages.

The drive is designed to provide easy access to the archive virtually anywhere. It connects to a computer or notebook through a simple USB port, providing instant access to every article, review, poem, illustration, and cartoon, exactly as it originally appeared in the magazine. Users can easily search, browse, read, zoom in, and print any stories, covers, or cartoons they choose. They can bookmark them with notes, or share their reading lists with co-workers, family or friends.

“The Complete New Yorker” hard drive will be available September 18th. Pre-orders are available now at www.thenewyorkerstore.com.

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