Do you buy magazines any more?

Same ^ | 03/06/11 | NoRedTape

[Jonty30]

Popular Science and Popular Mechanics are worth their weight.

[PERKY2004]

We get Birds and Blooms and Outdoor Photography. :)

[boop]

I used to buy Cigar Aficionado at my tobacco store. Now, I hardly ever smoke cigars, and there is hardly any place you can do it legally. It was a great magazine. I still have #1, and the Rush issue somewhere.

[AwesomePossum]

No magazines, newspapers or evening news............

:}

[cynwoody]

I still have a few. NR, Forbes, Wired, Scientific American, Discover.

They'll probably last until I get around to buying an iPad or similar device, suitable for use where I read the mags (the porcelain throne).

Once upon a time, I was a magazine junkie. Probably reached a peak in the early nineties, at several dozen active subscriptions. I actually had a card file to keep track of subscriptions and renewals. Nowadays, it all comes through the glass fiber.

At the office, I used to subscribe to a Ziff Davis rag, Computer Shopper. I would stash back issues in an extra bookcase in my office. Early on (up 'til about 1997), each issue was thick as a telephone book for a moderate metropolis. Most of the content consisted of dense ads for every conceivable (at the time) computer product. It did have reasonable editorial content, printed on better paper than the ads, but, without the ads, the heft of the book would be comparable to one of today's sorry mags. After the new millennium dawned, the Shopper got thinner and thinner until either it ceased publication or I forgot to renew (memory fails). Why get ink on your fingers thumbing through a magazine to find what a few clicks on Google will find?

[Politicalmom]

I really love one in the Dell Logic books called Collectibles, but there is only one every few issues.

I used to do all kinds of puzzles, but the logic ones are my absolute favorite. I only do crosswords with my Mom once in a blue moon. She and I between us can beat the harder ones, and we do even better when my sister is around to join in.

:)

[JoanneSD]

That is one great American Hero... Nick Popaditch, I worked and worked trying to get him into congress... but the union thugs are too great in Filners district.. perhaps next time...

[napscoordinator]

I get one subscription. Entertainment weekly. I like it for the most part. It discusses upcoming tv shows, movies, books, and music. It does not get into politics too much. It is basically a magazine that gives facts on these areas.

[Othniel]

National Review, Make, Popular Science, Wired, and, on occasion, Biblical Archeology Review. Haven't read an issue of Time or Newsweak in 15 years. Like National Lampoon for awhile, 'til it went bust, and the Wittenburg Door as well.

[gman992]

Let’s see—National Review, Entertainment Review, Wired, Esquire, Maxim, Playboy(but only for the naked women), and the Atlantic Monthly. I had to drop my subscriptions to Biggins’, Bucked-Teeth Women and Proletariat Chicks in Bondage because the economy is tight and I have to budget. Oh, and anything else, the guys at work leave in the bathroom.

[gigster]

I just bought a couple of magazines the other day.

.45 ACP M1911A1 from Cheaper Than Dirt.

Oh, I mean, Hemmings Auto News, and Vintage Truck.

[CaliforniaCon]

I still subscribe to my suburb’s daily paper (NOT the L.A. Times) plus: Sunset, House Beautiful and Town & Country magazines, all three pretty to look at....not so great on-line.

[Huck]

Guitar Player

Because I don't bring my laptop in the crapper.

[SamAdams76]

I stumbled across some old magazines in my attic and it was noticeable how much better they used to be. These days, there are more ads, less articles with a lower quality of writing and they still pack them with those annoying "fly-in" cards that spill all over your lap when you open the magazine. Or worse, the cards that are glued into the magazine so it is hard to turn to a certain page unless you physically rip them out.

Back in the 1980s, I had over a dozen magazines coming to the house. Now, having let National Geographic subscription lapse (after over 30 years), I am down to only WIRED magazine which will probably also not be renewed. After all, you can read pretty much every WIRED article for free online. Why bother with the subscription? Also, they spray so many weird colors and patterns into the magazine that I can hardly read the text anymore because it hurts my eyes.

[bmwcyle]

I read this one. I have read it since 1980. If you like stereo equipment is is the best there is. It is also the only one I read.

[Gene Eric]

Cigar smoking tank commander?

[DaxtonBrown]

Aviation History, Naval History, Biblical Archaeology. That’s all that is left, really rare specialty mags.

[ottbmare]

I buy some shelter magazines that show historic houses and their decoration. It just gives me huge pleasure and a lot of good ideas. This is an occasional indulgence.

I also buy This Old House which sows me how to fix stuff. Not all of their tutorials are online. I don’t buy every month, just occasionally when they have an article about a project I’m doing or might be doing. I keep them, and they’ve saved me money.

[Fresh Wind]

[TSgt]

Just this one...