Heritage
The Read. archive
Read. was a free Dubai lifestyle magazine published from 2011 to 2019 — in print and on the web, distributed to commuters through the Dubai Metro.
For eight years the magazine covered the city at street level: local news and community stories, RTA and Metro coverage, events and entertainment, travel, fashion and lifestyle, health and fitness, tech and gadgets, motoring, film reviews, competitions, and a classifieds section where readers traded with each other. Issues were also published as PDFs on the original readme.ae site.
The issue archive
93 issues of the original magazine — starting with the weekly run from June 2011 — have been restored to this site as PDF scans, preserved via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine captures of readme.ae. Dates are taken from each PDF’s own file metadata. Issues that survive only in the Wayback Machine are restored here over time.
| Issue | Date | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Issue 2 | 2011-06-25 | PDF, 6.8 MB |
| Issue 3 | 2011-06-30 | PDF, 14.2 MB |
| Issue 4 | 2011-07-07 | PDF, 10.6 MB |
| Issue 5 | 2011-07-14 | PDF, 12.3 MB |
| Issue 6 | 2011-07-21 | PDF, 11.1 MB |
| Issue 7 | 2011-07-28 | PDF, 10.7 MB |
| Issue 8 | 2011-08-04 | PDF, 9.9 MB |
| Issue 9 | 2011-08-11 | PDF, 9.8 MB |
| Issue 10 | 2011-08-18 | PDF, 11.3 MB |
| Issue 11 | 2011-08-25 | PDF, 8.9 MB |
| Issue 12 | 2011-09-01 | PDF, 8.9 MB |
| Issue 13 | 2011-09-08 | PDF, 6.8 MB |
| Issue 14 | 2011-09-15 | PDF, 8.1 MB |
| Issue 15 | 2011-09-22 | PDF, 11.8 MB |
| Issue 16 | 2011-09-29 | PDF, 9.6 MB |
| Issue 17 | 2011-10-06 | PDF, 8.9 MB |
| Issue 18 | 2011-10-13 | PDF, 9.5 MB |
| Issue 19 | 2011-10-20 | PDF, 10.1 MB |
| Issue 20 | 2011-10-29 | PDF, 8.2 MB |
| Issue 21 | 2011-11-03 | PDF, 10.8 MB |
| Issue 22 | 2011-11-10 | PDF, 8.4 MB |
| Issue 23 | 2011-11-17 | PDF, 8.1 MB |
| Issue 24 | 2011-11-24 | PDF, 9.0 MB |
| Issue 25 | 2011-12-01 | PDF, 10.4 MB |
| Issue 26 | 2011-12-08 | PDF, 17.3 MB |
| Issue 27 | 2011-12-15 | PDF, 19.6 MB |
| Issue 28 | 2011-12-22 | PDF, 19.3 MB |
| Issue 29 | 2011-12-29 | PDF, 9.9 MB |
| Issue 30 | 2012-01-05 | PDF, 13.8 MB |
| Issue 31 | 2012-01-14 | PDF, 14.5 MB |
| Issue 32 | 2012-01-19 | PDF, 10.8 MB |
| Issue 33 | 2012-01-26 | PDF, 14.4 MB |
| Issue 34 | 2012-02-02 | PDF, 15.6 MB |
| Issue 35 | 2012-02-09 | PDF, 10.9 MB |
| Issue 36 | 2012-02-16 | PDF, 10.8 MB |
| Issue 37 | 2012-02-23 | PDF, 15.7 MB |
| Issue 38 | 2012-03-01 | PDF, 10.9 MB |
| Issue 39 | 2012-03-08 | PDF, 13.1 MB |
| Issue 40 | 2012-03-15 | PDF, 13.5 MB |
| Issue 41 | 2012-03-22 | PDF, 11.6 MB |
| Issue 42 | 2012-03-29 | PDF, 11.9 MB |
| Issue 43 | 2012-04-05 | PDF, 12.6 MB |
| Issue 44 | 2012-04-12 | PDF, 14.2 MB |
| Issue 45 | 2012-04-19 | PDF, 14.6 MB |
| Issue 46 | 2012-04-26 | PDF, 15.9 MB |
| Issue 47 | 2012-05-03 | PDF, 14.6 MB |
| Issue 48 | 2012-05-10 | PDF, 11.7 MB |
| Issue 49 | 2012-05-17 | PDF, 21.5 MB |
| Issue 50 | 2012-05-24 | PDF, 19.1 MB |
| Issue 51 | 2012-05-31 | PDF, 12.0 MB |
| Issue 52 | 2012-06-07 | PDF, 10.9 MB |
| Issue 53 | 2012-06-14 | PDF, 13.0 MB |
| Issue 54 | 2012-06-21 | PDF, 14.5 MB |
| Issue 55 | 2012-06-28 | PDF, 13.0 MB |
| Issue 56 | 2012-07-05 | PDF, 11.6 MB |
| Issue 57 | 2012-07-12 | PDF, 12.6 MB |
| Issue 58 | 2012-07-19 | PDF, 13.4 MB |
| Issue 59 | 2012-07-26 | PDF, 13.3 MB |
| Issue 60 | 2012-08-05 | PDF, 10.1 MB |
| Issue 61 | 2012-08-09 | PDF, 11.9 MB |
| Issue 62 | 2012-08-16 | PDF, 18.5 MB |
| Issue 63 | 2012-08-23 | PDF, 20.2 MB |
| Issue 66 | 2012-09-13 | PDF, 9.3 MB |
| Issue 67 | 2012-09-20 | PDF, 8.9 MB |
| Issue 68 | 2012-09-27 | PDF, 12.4 MB |
| Issue 71 | 2012-10-18 | PDF, 27.1 MB |
| Issue 72 | 2012-10-25 | PDF, 27.4 MB |
| Issue 76 | 2012-11-22 | PDF, 27.9 MB |
| Issue 78 | 2012-12-06 | PDF, 36.5 MB |
| Issue 80 | 2013-01-08 | PDF, 23.4 MB |
| Issue 83 | 2013-01-10 | PDF, 22.4 MB |
| Issue 85 | 2013-01-23 | PDF, 28.1 MB |
| Issue 88 | 2013-02-14 | PDF, 24.6 MB |
| Issue 89 | 2013-02-21 | PDF, 28.4 MB |
| Issue 92 | 2013-03-14 | PDF, 20.7 MB |
| Issue 96 | 2013-04-11 | PDF, 26.9 MB |
| Issue 98 | 2013-04-25 | PDF, 26.9 MB |
| Issue 100 | 2013-05-09 | PDF, 14.1 MB |
| Issue 101 | 2013-05-16 | PDF, 26.4 MB |
| Issue 105 | 2013-06-16 | PDF, 28.8 MB |
| Issue 107 | 2013-06-27 | PDF, 27.4 MB |
| Issue 108 | 2013-07-04 | PDF, 29.5 MB |
| Issue 109 | 2013-07-11 | PDF, 27.8 MB |
| Issue 110 | 2013-07-18 | PDF, 18.6 MB |
| Issue 111 | 2013-07-25 | PDF, 29.8 MB |
| Issue 112 | 2013-08-01 | PDF, 35.5 MB |
| Issue 114 | 2013-08-15 | PDF, 29.4 MB |
| Issue 115 | 2013-08-22 | PDF, 28.4 MB |
| Issue 116 | 2013-08-29 | PDF, 18.0 MB |
| Issue 118 | 2013-09-12 | PDF, 32.1 MB |
| Issue 123 | 2013-10-17 | PDF, 30.4 MB |
| Issue 124 | 2013-10-24 | PDF, 32.5 MB |
| Issue 126 | 2013-11-07 | PDF, 27.2 MB |
The relaunch
readme.ae is back online as a practical guide to Dubai, keeping the magazine’s name and its beat. A number of original stories are preserved at their old addresses, and the rest of the old site now points readers to the closest current section. How and why the site returned: about the relaunch.