I don’t even come close. My inspiration is US Naval Institute Proceedings. If I get 8, that is unusual.
Fine magazine, USNI!
My dad had a lifetime membership, and I read them avidly from when I was seven or eight all the way up to when he passed away. I found them to be fantastically interesting.
And they were heavily constructed magazines. The cover always felt thicker, and the magazine was thick. Full of images, maps, diagrams, and discussion of a wide variety of subjects. They seemed like quality to me. My dad had subscriptions to Time, US News and World Report, Newsweek, National Geographic, and Life Magazine until it went out of print. There were always lots of magazines to read.
I rarely read papers growing up, I was more likely to be delivering them...mostly The Stars and Stripes and The Washington Post. I remember as a 9 year old kid, going out with my best friend at 4-5 AM in Fairfax, VA where his father would drive the station wagon filled to the gills with newspapers as we sat on the open tailgate with our legs dangling.
It was dark, and only occasionally would you see a light on inside a house. We would jump off the car with a paper in hand and run up to the door to drop it there.
But I never read them as a kid. Only the magazines.
I miss reading them.