Magazine subscriptions

Do you have a magazine subscription?

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    Votes: 7 46.7%
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I was browsing another website and there was an advert for a performance car-related magazine. I'd have thought in this day and age, with information at our thumb- and finger-tips, that magazine subscriptions would have been on the wane. Or at least digitalised. Lots of information to be found on websites, blogs, youtube, social media etc.

I had a Which? magazine subscription for product reviews about domestic appliances, but very rarely read the whole magazine. I'd have much preferred an electronic version that I could read on my phone or tablet. It was cancelled after a couple of years' use.

Do you still have an active magazine subscription that gets posted out?
If so, why?
 
I have an Autosport subscription that I have had for about 8yrs. Like my music and movie collection, I prefer a hard copy over a digital download.
 
My missus gets Which, which she just skims through. I used to get a couple of Carp Fishing magazines which have now stopped, but i've got a Photography mag subscription starting soon. Didn't need it but was running out of suggestions fr a Christmas pressie.

No doubt, they will take pride of place in the loo as do all the others until read ;)
 
If I want to know about something, I'll look online, ask people or get a book. If I want a regular photography read, I have my AP sub and I buy occasional other magazines. When I was regularly flying, I bought Pilot and Flyer magazines to read. In other words, if you want reading material with regular new input (ok it gets repetitive sometimes) you get a mag (paper or digital). If you want knowledge, you go to other sources usually.
 
No subscriptions but I do buy a couple of mags fairly regularly. Much prefer a paper version to web based.
 
Actually just signed up for a Men's health physical sub.
 
I've never subscribed to a magazine, just bought the odd one if there was a particular article I wanted to read. My wife used to get Which. I never knew why, because she hardly ever read it, and she cancelled a couple of years ago.
 
I used to subscribe to magazines. Not any more and don't buy newspapers. They have had their day and are on the way out.
 
I still buy magazines, namely Rail, ComputerActive, Viz comic and even The Beano. I prefer to keep my reading habits separate from the internet, and less chance of eye strain. I use the internet for communications, advice and even inspiration, such as this fine web site.
 
I sometimes miss buying magazines - there's so much readily available free info/video tutorials/news etc online now they are a bit more redundant. But reading from a screen is just not as cosy as lounging with a glossy magazine. I used to buy 2-3 photography mags pm, I loved them [though they are very expensive over here, anything from €7 to €11!] - didn't specifically sub to any one, just whichever had the best articles or tutorials any given week - I used to be a lot less lazy and would follow all the tutorials and do all the suggested projects and enter the photo competitions, of course everything was new to me then so I was learning every time. I still am, but though I did love the mags, it's just to easy [and free!] now to just go 'meh, I'll look it up on youtube' instead.
 
Black & White photography magazine and the RPS Journal.

I do like reading the articles on new books, and photographers and their work. Both magazines offer a digest of "what's on" in the way of exhibitions etc.

However this did make me chuckle...
Graham W said:
"How to photograph autumn colours"
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Makes me want to remove my own face too.

Many magazines seem to repeat their content. In an internet age, it's a surprise considering the wealth of information out there about pretty much anything.
 
Harlequin565 said:
Many magazines seem to repeat their content.
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Totally agree - over the years I've had BBC Wildlife and a few photography ones. I found that after about 18 months things felt very familiar and comparable to some of the old magazines. I'd probably go back to some of the magazines after 3 or 4 years off.


Craig1912 said:
https://gb.readly.com/
£7.99 pm
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£8 a month sounds a lot if you're only after 1 or 2 magazines, butif you've got a few different ones you're interested in that are available then that is an absolute bargain.
 
Craig1912 said:
https://gb.readly.com/
£7.99 pm
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I have thought about getting that several times but what I know will happen is that I won't read it. Over the years I have subscribed to a lot of different mags and I still get a couple, when they land on the door mat I read them over the next few days but with somehting like Readly I would just forget.

BTW the ones I currently get aren't on Readly anyway.
 
Uneducated_Rick said:
Totally agree - over the years I've had BBC Wildlife and a few photography ones. I found that after about 18 months things felt very familiar and comparable to some of the old magazines. I'd probably go back to some of the magazines after 3 or 4 years off.



£8 a month sounds a lot if you're only after 1 or 2 magazines, butif you've got a few different ones you're interested in that are available then that is an absolute bargain.
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I tend to read magazines that I wouldn’t normally buy.

Another one that is free with lots of interesting stuff is issuu - Read Magazines by Issuu
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/issuu-read-magazines/id914453825?mt=8
 
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