Lips. Wait, wut!?!?
I don't read anything printed. I read some blogs or news sites.
Ooh, I think you'd like print magazines. There's just something about holding a periodical in your hands while you read it. I love my Kindle, but it just feels better holding a magazine. Subjective, I know, but you might like it.
I loved Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Starlog, etc. back in the 70's & 80's.
I had subscriptions to Astronomy and 1 or 2 other science-y type mags back then too.
I collected Dragon Magazine back in the 90's, mainly because I had photos published in there. I mean, I liked the mag anyway, and worked in a hobby shop, so I had access to it either way, but it's the only one I still have copies of.
To have a Starlog subscription in the 70s and 80s, wow! You got to experience reading about some of the best science fiction as it came out.
I read a lot of magazines and subscribe to Next Issue.
I was about to comment that "Next Issue" is a fitting name for a magazine, until I looked it up and it's a sub service that lets you read a bunch of magazines at your convenience. Nice!
I used to read a lot of magazines, but the eyes have gotten so bad even reading books long in my library is difficult; I can't see the entire page clearly.
Magazines I used to read (off the rack, never much of a subscriber): Time, Newsweek, Psychology Today, Sky & Telescope, Games, TV Guide, National Lampoon, Premiere, Starlog, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Creative Computing, Castle of Frankenstein, Popular Science, Omni, Heavy Metal, Consumer Reports, Cinefantastique, Cinefex, Playboy*.
* I did subscribe to this for a year.
Those all sounds awesome, especially the last one.
As for the magazines themselves, can you read large print?
My favorite magazine was Sci Fi Universe. I think I still have them all in a box somewhere. I recently started getting TV Guide again but I liked it better when it was a smaller magazine and had more local programming in it.
Amen to that. I preferred TV Guide when it was a little booklet you could carry around rather than a larger magazine. I always loved reading the TV show reviews.
SFX and
NatGeo. I'd like to read
New Scientist more often, but who can afford $10/week every week, and who has time to really sit down and study it? Not I. But it is VERY good!
Only problem with my preferences? The glossy paper has substantial weight, so a box of them is impossible to lift.
Lips. Wait, wut!?!?
I don't read anything printed. I read some blogs or news sites.
You should, you really should. You'd gain far more than you can imagine.
One of my friends suggested I should subscribe to
Nature, as I love hard science articles. I went to their website and nearly plotzed. $200 a year! Granted, it's a new issue a week, but that's a lot of money!
I have a digital subscription to the New York Times, which includes the Sunday magazine. Don't read any other magazines regularly any more.
I occasionally buy an individual print issue of some home magazine or another, or read one at the library. But mostly I get my interior design fix via Pinterest these days.
Yesterday I went to the store, and while I was there I looked at the magazine rack. I didn't realize how expensive magazines have become!
I subscribed to Discover & Omni on the 80's too.
I was offered the chance to enter a contest to win a subscription to Discover, but considering the state of the Discovery channel today, I didn't know what I would be getting, so I picked Smithsonian instead, and it paid off. I figure the magazine dept. is different from the people who run the online/television media, but it's the mindset. I don't want junk, and wasn't going to risk it.
I have a subscription to "Men's Health," which I love reading for various reasons, one of which being the amazing and healthy recipes they include every month.
I got a free copy of Men's Health once, and while it was a fascinating magazine, living out in the country makes some of their ideas a bit impractical for me.
I had to give up most of my subscriptions when my income was cut in half. I used to subscribe to Smithsonian, Popular Science, Discover, Science News, Analog, Asimov's, Alfred Hitchock, Ellery Queen, Cemetery Dance-- plus a bunch of other genre magazines that probably don't exist anymore. I still get magazines that come with memberships in organizations like The Planetary Society and The Southern Poverty Law Center. And I still subscribe to Weird Tales but it's published so sporadically that I'm never sure if another issue will ever come. And I still get Rolling Stone because I won a lifetime subscription back in the 80s, but I seldom look at it these days. I've been thinking about re-subscribing to Analog and Asimov's through my Nook. I hate not supporting short fiction markets.
Subscribing to Analog sounds cool. Like you, I'd sub to dozens of magazines if I could afford it. I already figure once my free year of Smithsonian runs out I'll start subbing, as it's only $12 a year. That's a deal.
I have a subscription to TV Guide.If I want to read magazines I go to the library.
Our little library (think one room school house) doesn't really have periodicals. They have one computer, and a couple of shelves. Oh, it's a neat library, but so so tiny and underfunded.
I read the following (all free thanks to the folks here at the condo who pass things on to me)
National Geographic
New Yorker
Smithsonian
People
Us Weekly
Readers Digest
Sports Illustrated
The magazines I will resubscribe to when the kids are a bit older and I have more time
Wired
ESPN the magazine
I like reading things on my tablet, but when you are sitting on the pot, it seems more appropriate to hold a paper magazine rather than scroll on your rather expensive electronic device.
ETA: I used to subscribe to Time magazine and Newsweek. Time was worth the money, although the revamped Newsweek is quite impressive.
I may have to check out Newsweek again. Time is always worth the money, though I can't buy them because "ohmygod$12anissue!".
