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monster 11-09-2009 03:22 PM

Which magazines do you subscribe to?
 
In real paper and/or online?

In paper, we get New Scientist and Lego Brickmaster, and also The Beano via grandma in the UK.

Also USA Hockey magazine and Splash -the USA Swimming magazine- both of which come with the kids' memberships to those organizations.

Online we get access to New Scientist that is a paid service for those who don't get the paper version. i don't really use that, though, not sure if beest does...

classicman 11-09-2009 03:25 PM

The economist and Discovery, but I've about had it with Discovery. I love the economist though.

glatt 11-09-2009 03:27 PM

Make is the only one I get.


I used to get some wood working ones, but have canceled those because they just regurgitate the same stuff after a while.

TheMercenary 11-09-2009 03:29 PM

Economist
The Atlantic
Soundings
Outdoor Life
Field and Stream
National Geographic
Southern Living
Motorcycle Consumer News
American Rifleman

And I get 3 or 4 others that are part of membership in various organizations and except for Boat US I trash them mostly.

Cloud 11-09-2009 03:42 PM

I love magazines, but have mostly replaced subscriptions with online viewing.

Consumer Reports--online subscription, as previously mentioned.
Wired--I get this, but don't think I actually paid for it--came as a freebie.
Ornament--a beautiful magazine on artisan jewelry and wearables which isn't duplicated on the Web.
Pain Magazine--a body modification industry rag
The Point--the Association of Professional Piercers publication, which comes with my membership (also available online in .pdf version)

wolf 11-09-2009 04:13 PM

Wired (freebie from amazon.com; due to expire soon, won't be renewing)
Newsmax
Whistleblower
America's First Freedom
Leben

Better Homes and Gardens (momwolf's subscription)

DanaC 11-09-2009 04:52 PM

I don't subscribe to any mags at all. I regularly read the Vortex magazine (the Big Finish magazine: since they started putting onto their site as a freebie).

Years ago (early 90s) I used to subscribe to Focus, the BBC produced science and technology magazine. I loved it. Got it delivered and everything. Then rather bizarrely, they changed their strapline from 'leading science and technology' to 'the leading men's interest magazine'. It has since changed back but it kept that 'men's interest magazine' strapline for a little while. I was furious. I cancelled my sub. I buy it now and again, because it's a good magazine. But I boycotted for about a year. It so pissed me off that 'science and technology' was being sold as 'men's interest'.

Mostly I buy magazines as and when something appeals to me. I used to buy PCGamer and PCZone pretty regularly. The babe on front of PCGamer did used to annoy me (usually sporting a white scientist coat, a sciency-looking clipboard and pneumatic breasts), but I forgave them as the gamerz they were. Can't change the world overnight. But from Focus I expected better.



[eta] a recent cellar post hooked me back into PvPOnline. Way back in the mists of time, I used to occasionally dip into it. I was a UO gamer and had rather enjoyed the UO stuff Scott Kurtz had done (Tales from the Tavern or something, and another one I can't recall). So, having read the recent stuff, I decided to go back to its start: 1998. Wow. I am completely hooked. I am reading them in order. It's like a trip down memory lane, all that late 90s and early naughties zeitgeist. Stuff I'd totally forgotten about: like the y2k bug, and the launch of Baulder's gate 2, the Sega dreamcast and Garriott (Lord British) leaving Origin. The beginnings of Everquest and Prince changing his name to a symbol. People having LAN parties and getting excited about a 486 with a brand spanking new Voodoo card. StarWars episode one and Attack of the Clones. It's all there.

So anyhoo, I am now at June 2001. I am completely hooked on it. God help me, I found a new obsession and it comes with a back catalogue. Eek.

Pie 11-09-2009 05:31 PM

In print:
Uh.... wired freebie...
And...
That's it.

Online: Sciam, New Scientist, The Economist, NYTimes, CSMonitor, Businessweek.

regular.joe 11-09-2009 05:36 PM

Only subscription right now is Esquire.

morgan 11-09-2009 06:50 PM

fortune

skysidhe 11-09-2009 07:49 PM

I have Better Homes and Gardens but it doesn't help me with either. Their online magazine is better.

I usually get Time,Newsweek or US News & World Report.
Mother Jones catches my eye once in a while but I haven't bought and issue yet. I also think the NY Times would be a good one except it is so expensive.

glatt 11-09-2009 07:59 PM

I forgot, We're getting SPIN too. It's an accident and we aren't paying for it. I thumb through it to see if I know any of the bands. I usually have heard of one in each issue.

skysidhe 11-09-2009 08:06 PM

Spin's probably good? It HAS to be better than R.S.

dar512 11-09-2009 08:32 PM

Reader's Digest
Smithsonian

Mrs. dar gets some teacher-type magazines.

darlet#2 gets various fashion/glamor magazines.

I used to get a number of computer/programming magazines, but they've all folded or are crap now.

jinx 11-09-2009 09:14 PM

We get food network magazine... my sister got it for us for some reason, fundraiser maybe. My grandmother gets the kids Nat Geo for kids, Click, Ask, and Highlights.


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