Printed Magazines

[barry1010]

Do any of you still buy magazines regularly?
My mother used to buy several every week, my wife stopped buying them years ago.
I subscribe to the TV Times, The Oldie and Computer Active. My little indulgences.
I don't know if printed magazines have much of a future, really.

[Musictv2019]

Yes I buy inside soap

[Canary42]

The Oldie, Private Eye, Which?, Waterlife, RSPB Magazine. I also regularly read several from the local library (History, Countryfile, Coast) .

[Canary42]

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I used to buy E&M quite frequently in my younger days (I don't recall any auctions in it tho')

[Canary42]

\\\ jno: BBC History, which I browse while eat dinner.////

That's one I get from the library - recently discovered and relentlessly interesting. I'm seriously thinking of taking out a sub.

[jno]

I like it, Canary. It's fairly populist - ie lots of Tudors and Nazis, as usual - but well written by proper historians.

One recent bugbear is that you have to take out separate subs to the magazine and the online version; I used to have access to both from the same sub.

[Canary42]

The recent Richard III article won me over.

[ladybirder]

I do get the RSPB magazine and I did subscribe to Which for a couple of years but no more.

[10ClarionSt]

I also still have some original copies of Zap 64 from 1987/88, which was for the Commodore 64, plus an older copy, from 1983 called Commodore Computing International. There is a supplement with one of the Zap 64 copies that shows you playing tips for the Commodore games and some tips for writing programs in BASIC. Some of it is printed in 3D and I still have the red/green specs that came with it. I know, I know, that was from years ago, not recently, but they were all the rage then! :o)

[Peter Pedant]

seems incredz - there is a measure for this
No of publications in a week
so - if you had a daily paper and a Sunday paper you scored 7
Bunty ever week, scored 1/4 ( four in a month), and sunny stories every week another 1/4 so your total would be - - - 7.5

Manchester was the highest - - in the world, and that was because of Manchester Evg News - remember that it supported the Manchester Guardian which was the only provincial paper that became a National ( Guardian). It never rose above 10 but peaked I think at something like 9.2 - and THAT meant a household in Manch ALL had a daily paper and around a quarter ALSO had an evg paper.

I still score 6.25 - the national average score now is around 2 .

In the good olde days, if you wished to carry out an experiment with new things in newspapers, then Manchester was the natural test bed.

[10ClarionSt]

Yes PP. And what happened to the Empire (printed on green paper) and the Saturday Pink?

[Caran]

I buy a subscription to Candis magazine. I have presents of two subscriptions to Yours magazine and the Good Food magazine.

[Redhelen72]

I subscribe to a garden magazine and get loads of free seeds with it, I also buy a couple of other gardening magazines depending on the time of year and their cover story

[barry1010]

I'm pleased so many of still enjoy magazines and there is still a wide variety. No mention of Woman's Realm and the like though.
I still get a buzz from opening a new mag, reading the online version is not the same for me. Strange as I only read books on my ereaders.