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Old 12-01-2019, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Retired in VT; previously MD & NJ
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Oh. I didn't know Reader's Digest was still in print!

I only read magazines while waiting at the doctor's office or the car dealer while the car is in for service. Sometimes I don't bother even there. Many years ago I discovered that any given magazine will recycle their stories every year or so... same topics rewritten by someone else.

News magazines are out of date before they get printed. I get my news mostly from cable TV. Alternate between 2 channels neither of which is a small animal with a fluffy tail. I get local news from the ladies at the dog park.

Someone up-thread mentioned Consumer Reports. I find the online reviews for various products much more useful.

So no, I am not a magazine fan.
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Old 12-01-2019, 04:05 PM
 
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Neither subscribe to or read any hardcopy magazines or newspapers unless I'm in a waiting room or at an airport.
Which is sorta the same thing, right?
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Old 12-01-2019, 04:17 PM
 
Location: Just west of the Missouri River
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Until very recently, I subscribed to "Nebraska" magazine and "The New Yorker" magazine. I felt quite irritated about "The New Yorker" coming to my house every week as I had thought I signed up for a digital-only subscription. I read mostly on the internet and I don't need or want the paper accumulation. I have more than twenty news sources bookmarked on my laptop and will look at 10 to 12 of them regularly. Recently, I've downloaded a reader for the Washington Post onto my FireTV so I can look at the news when I have a dog on my lap.
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Old 12-01-2019, 05:48 PM
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Location: Concord, CA
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Printed Magazines: Consumer Reports and the Economist.

Most others I read on line: NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Rolling Stone, EETimes, etc.
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Old 12-01-2019, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Sacramento
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Economist, Popular Science and Scientific American

For current news I just go online. I use Reuters for general news, and then look at CNN and Fox to see the advocacy stories.
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Old 12-01-2019, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Western Colorado
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Cigar Aficionado
Amsat (about amateur radio satellites)
QST (Amateur Radio)
Shooting Illustrated (NRA)
Field and Stream
Better Homes & Gardens
AARP magazine thing

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Old 12-01-2019, 06:43 PM
 
Location: Tampa, FL
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Print magazines are sadly dying. I can't tell you how many postcards I have received that a magazine is digital or no longer being published in any form. I love print magazines.

One's I still subscribe to:
1. Kiplinger
2. Better Homes and Gardens
3. Sunset
4. Travel and Leisure
5. National Geographic

Magazines that I used to subscribe to but stopped as they were no longer in print:
1. Money
2. National Geographic Traveler
3. Scientific American Mind
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Old 12-01-2019, 06:51 PM
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Location: Middle Tennessee
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We still like physical magazines.

Time
The Week
Sports Illustrated
Kiplinger's
Smithsonian
Saturday Evening Post (just started this one)

We also trade with some friends of ours and I get Bloomberg Businessweek, Barrons and Fortune when they finish reading them.
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Old 12-01-2019, 07:05 PM
 
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I prefer the NYT digital than print because the print is just too small. Always was, but more so with time passing.
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Old 12-01-2019, 07:10 PM
 
Location: TN/NC
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Economist paper copy and NYT digital.
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