Print Magazines

maintaining my subscriptions to National Geographic and Discover and see no reason to stop in the foreseeable future, if for no other reason that I want science material lying around the house for me and my kids to read

I will read public library copies of print magazines sometimes in addition to those in waiting rooms.

i just have old copies of the "the wire" that i read whenever i'm a little baked and i get really annoyed by them but i can't bring myself to throw them out

i subscribe to Film Comment.

i sub to a few - harpers, foreign policy, espn mag (100% bc i wanted the insider access on the website), cook's illustrated, someone bought us a the week subscription a year ago that we're still getting. i'd say i read... um... 10-25% of each one (except espn which i never crack open) and often accumulate huge stockpiles. no new yorker print luckily i just borrow a friend's online sub account. a few years ago i got a couple more - new republic, i think atlantic at some point, game informer, but i mostly stopped getting them. feel like i should sub to the wire y bc intersting.

nat geo is great and i always think i should subscribe to it

I kind of miss them, they're really not as enjoyable to read on a screen somehow (less so than books for me). Figure I'll eventually resubscribe to NYer, maybe NY Review of Books, possibly an art mag or two where the nice glossy photos are worth seeing in print.

OTOH they build up everywhere and turn into gross damp piles in the bathroom.

new yorker & LRB

(subscriptions)

^ good post/display name combo

I always check out the New Yorker's table of contents on Mondays; it's only once every couple of months that there are enough interesting articles to justify the $7 cover price, though.

I love fashion magazines but just end up with huge towers of them all over the place so have stopped.

I subscribe to an excellent service called Stack that sends me a different magazine on a range of topics each month, and Art Review. I much prefer print to digital - for text but particularly images.

I kind of miss them, they're really not as enjoyable to read on a screen somehow (less so than books for me). Figure I'll eventually resubscribe to NYer, maybe NY Review of Books, possibly an art mag or two where the nice glossy photos are worth seeing in print.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 22:29 (1 hour ago)

nyrb is much better within the form of print magazines than lrb which is just a nicely formatted printout; as to the quality of the writing that is fairly equal although...i let my lrb subscription lapse but i buy the american one from time to time

I use that Next Issue app for my iPad and read all my magazines that way. I pay something like 7 bucks a month for 100+ magazines at my disposal (including everything periodical mentioned in this thread so far).

I always check out the New Yorker's table of contents on Mondays; it's only once every couple of months that there are enough interesting articles to justify the $7 cover price, though.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, February 3, 2015 11:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a subscription comes out to about 1.50/issue which is an insane deal

I sub to Bon Appetit and Saveur because they're dirt cheap subs. I buy Outside/NYer/travel mags when there are enough interesting articles to read vs. just finding them online. Can't get used to reading magazines on the iPad but I assume I will eventually.

Used to buy Wired all the time but they haven't put out much of interest lately.

Subscribe to The Believer and Brick (Canadian literary journal--does this qualify as a "magazine?"). Occasionally check new issues of Rolling Stone and The New Yorker out from the library.

Rolling Stone and the New Yorker

No time for much else, even to buy from newsstands.

Two Christmases ago my husband got me four different magazine subscriptions (Macleans, Paris Review, NYRB, Atlantic), a lovely and much appreciated gift. I let the Macleans and Atlantic subscriptions lapse because I just can't find time to read that much and the pile got really intimidating. Plus the Atlantic articles were almost never interesting to me. Paris Review is a joy and I'm glad it was the longest subscription, and when it runs out I will renew it for sure. NYRB is awesome but again, my 'reading' time is before bed and I am usually too fucking tired to concentrate on what can be rather dry stuff. So that's piling up unread and I feel a bit guilty and also uninformed about books.

I think I only wanted Macleans because my mum always subscribed to it and I guess subliminally I felt like it was Something That Parents Do.

Do not read them. Really hate when all the cards fall out of them. Never really got over that. Fu print mags.

I like Jeff’s response.

I have no subscriptions to physical magazines. RIP mods. I do subscribe to the New Yorker digitally though.

I also own a copy of Rolling Stone with Taylor Swift on the cover, in addition to a copy of Time with Taylor Swift on the cover.

My wife gets AARP and Oprah, and our daughter gets NatGeo again after a hiatus of a few years. My last print sub fell away when Gourmet was cancelled.

I work for a magazine publishing company, but we give most of them away for free.

Someone subscribed us to EW and Rolling Stone. I read about a page a day from them, usually while the kids are finishing up their dinner.

If someone with personal significance to me dies, I'll buy the occasional Sports Illustrated or Time. I rarely read magazines; there's a finite amount of reading in me, and I try to save that for books.

Took me a sec to realize you mean [a public figure] with personal significance...

Otherwise, I was all, What a weird reaction, but maybe it takes his mind off things.

I definitely bought a bunch of Steve Jobs-related magazines in 2011.

new yorker, new york review of books, economist, baffler, sometimes foreign affairs

(xpost) That's so funny! Mom dies, reflexively run out and buy Sport Illustrated.

Actually I forgot I get the Nation and never read it. I signed up for the free trial to get access to a specific article and then never cancelled, that's how they getcha, these progressive magazines.

no ilxors sub to mother jones?

only the New Yorker currently, thinking about springing for an AAAS membership so I can get Science in print, which is actually a journal I guess but it's weekly

I always get a bad impression of Mother Jones, like it's a bunch of weaksauce leftish impressions for progressives who don't want to think too hard. Maybe that's not fair.

huh no poll option for magazines are my favourite part of being alive

Also it seems to pick up on preoccupations like GMOs that I find kind of pointless as causes.

Of the many magazines I've received a subscription to without asking for it, GQ and Bon Appetit are the most entertaining.

A New Yorker subscription is definitely worth it. I would say a Harper's one is too, but I always found they arrived later than you would see them on the newsstands, which was an annoying deal-breaker.

The Nation and Mother Jones both preach to the choir too much for me.

I don't subscribe to any but my 9-year-old subscribes to several, and is super excited when he comes home from school and there's a new issue of Nat Geo Kids or whatever, just like I used to be with Ranger Rick. Print magazines rule.

When I was a kid my uncle in the US got me a Ranger Rick subscription and I loved it, mostly because it was a great magazine but also because it had that extra element of being foreign (that kind of magical not-quite-foreign of US/UK differences) and something the other kids in school didn't have. Thank you, uncle!

I suppose I should have paid it forward when he had kids and subscribed them to some British magazine but by the time I reached the age of having enough disposable income to maybe even consider buying expensive overseas print mag subs for children I've never met they would've been too old for that sort of thing.

Anyway I used to love magazines and would go to the newsagent at least once a week and buy one, usually a music magazine or a computer magazine, but my terrible internet addiction stopped me getting round to reading them and now I almost never buy them. Kind of sad. I've still hoarded various boxes full of favourites from my teens and early 20s, which I guess is not a great use of space as they take up a lot of it and I never look at them, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them.

Probably should; I got rid of a whole bunch of NMEs in my early 20s, having clipped the couple of pages which actually featured someone I like from each issue, and I don't miss them or ever look at the clippings. Then again, I did for a while miss the piles of ZX Spectrum magazines my parents "suggested" I bin once the computer was obsolete and I stopped playing with it - but you can find scans of pretty much all of them online now.

(Note to self: when throwing them out just repeat the mantra, "I am not a library. I do not need to be a library. I am not furthering the public good by having these get yellow and dogeared in my bedroom while never being read.")

I buy Mojo and Sight and Sound occasionally. That's about it.

I buy every or most issues of

Sight and Sound
The Wire
Video Watchdog
Shock Cinema
Private Eye

Also pick up Vice whenever I see it, and a friend passes When Saturday Comes on to me

I used to subscribe to Boy's life in the 80's.

got subs to private eye, edge and british journal of photography, the latter two mainly because i haven't got around to cancelling them despite intending to for years. i keep 'em in the toilet and throw them out once the cat-litter dust on the covers gets to be about half an inch thick.

i subscribe to mojo.

ADBUSTERS YO

NO LOVE FOR ADBUSTERS HERE? DAMN

for real though i used to love adbusters in early college

Who knew that the print magazine that would translate best to online media would be Reader's Digest.

http://www.rd.com/

http://i.imgur.com/xd5mHxA.png

Match made in heaven.

Adbusters often felt like shooting fish in a barrel iirc

NO LOVE FOR ADBUSTERS HERE? DAMN

Adbusters Blames the Jews

I get a contributor's subscription to MOJO, and would love a New Yorker subscription but its crazy expensive to get it sent to the UK, so I just pick it up at the airport if I'm in the US. Also I subscribed to Which? magazine, a few years back when I needed a recommendation on a good cheap vacuum cleaner, and I'm still subscribed, and it is crazy expensive, and why don't I just cancel it?

Wax poetics used to be great but the article quality and printing quality really dropped off a couple years ago

I noticed that too about Wax Poetics. I eagerly anticipated every issue, and many/most articles sent me scurrying to investigate an artist or area of music I was unfamiliar with. In every instance, I was handsomely rewarded with amazing new stuff to listen to. But around two years ago, when I started checking out more current artists they were hyping, WP started to remind me of when Mojo got into over-the-top praise for blandness (e.g., Mojo's GOMEZ: THE BAND WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR cover story).

I subscribed to the Nation in the '90s for Cockburn and pre-9/11 Hitchens. Now just a mouth organ for the Dems zzzzzzzzzzzz.

used to love wax poetics too, but it always seemed quite hit and miss.

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subscribe to New Orleans music magazine Offbeat

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