Whose Magazines do You Still Subscribe to by Mail?

The only time I read a real magazine any more is on an airplane. Then it's about either guns, cars or airplanes.

I just let my subscription to The Smithsonian lapse because I didn't have take the time to read it properly. Same with the newspaper.

Times, they have changed.

Only Popular Science, and it's changed a lot............not for the better.

Used to get Discover. Good magazine, but they decided to take political sides, so I dumped them. Same with US News & World Report.

I wish Omni was still around. That was a good one.

National Geographic is good, a little pricey for me though.

_{I get Newsmax too. Don't tell anyone.}

SHHHHHHhhhhhhh--We are a Minority, yet receive no bailouts , or Special treatment, nor do we ask ...

If you enjoy newsmax get the City Journal, it's part of the WJ Casey "club" too. Wife gets it and I take it with Nuts & Volts to travel, good one on earthquake engineering this month.

Thank you for the link, and article-- Have done a lot of earthquake retrofit work in the last 20 years, especially after the Northridge Quake--Subscribed!!

Today with internet none of then. By the time it makes it to print it's old news. Most publishers know this so most today are filled with advertisement. Content is slim.

I get Nuts and Volts in paper, but that's it.

Me too for Nuts & Volts with NSS News (cavers) going to let Maximum PC expire.

Time magazine. That's it. Read the NY Times on my computer and on my Kindle.

All the best entertainment and news is here at CR4, anyway. _Right?

American Scientist, but only because I'm too lazy to switch it over. I still like real paper books, but magazines work much better online. The only problem I have is my lifelong habit of starting magazines at the back and reading toward the front; online doesn't let you do that as easily.

I'm a bit of an Astronomy geek so I still get 'Sky & Telescope' delivered. There are lots of online astro sources, including S&T's website, but they just don't suit my needs like the magazine does. I suspect that other niche hobby magazines still maintain a reasonable number of subscriptions compared to news magazines where the readership has fallen.

Pop Sci and Pop Mech (as gifts) Vanity Fair, Vogue (for wife)

I buy books, patents, download from net.

Vanity Fair has good writing on a range of subjects, Vogue has beautiful handbags, if you need them, and pictures of impossibly thin women.

The Economist. What's happening in the world. Written for people who can think and who can do without hype, partisan propaganda and cultural trivia. Also several specialized hobby magazines most notable for present company, Home Shop Machinist/Projects in Metal. ...........Ed Weldon

New Yorker (cartoons are good) and it gives the company something to read in the head.

Wood Magazine has some good plans that I use now and then and some ideas I like.

QST amateur radio magazine.

The rest are all about dogs as that's our business now.

I agree.

I always read in Primary Care's reception.

In addition to cartoons a good taste of poetry and some serious topic articles.

Magazines that I used to get

Scientific American, Natioal Geographic, Omni, Sky and Telescope, Lynn's Stamp News, Nature, Wooden Boat, American Rifleman

Magazines that I get today

Field and Stream, it was a gift

Now that I usually work only half a day 6:00 - 6:00 with a total of an hour travel I just don't seem to read mags any more. Maybe when I retire Like that will happen soon

You sound like me - I've taken to audio books since I don't have time to read. I can get through 1 or 2 a month so that's 15 or 20 books a year I wouldn't have time for otherwise. A lot of magazines you can get as pod casts, but who has time to download?

Analog Science Fiction and Fact - Kindle version

Seems to be the only magazine I find time to read cover to cover.

Hooker

My favorites are Car & Driver and National Geographic, although I also still get some trade magazines in print - Machine design, Design News, some others.

I like the print versions for high quality photos and the format being consistent with fewer distractions. I spend enough time looking at electronic screens for work and when the laptop or kindle falls on my lap or chest it wakes me up. Plus, I can take print versions anywhere, they're light weight, and if they get wet it's not a big deal.

I also have quit most magazines for the reasons listed. This paradigm shift however will cause problems most likely in the future. Some of the stuff read on-line was generated because it was for a magazine. I read the Star/Tribune on-line for regional and national news but if folks did not buy it also, the site would not exist. It is hard to judge where this is all headed.

I still get magazines relating to my hobbies (one hobby is actually my retirement plan, so I subscribe to 6 from that field). Scientific / engineering news I get from the internet and the dozens of e-zines that are sent daily to my work computer. Unfortunately this leads to dozens of subscription renewal calls daily also.

My boss and I were just commenting yesterday, in fact, about how now we never get a chance (or make time) to read any of our "digital format" magazines.

Back in the day I would read Byte, EETimes, Circuit Cellar, Control Engineering almost cover to cover when they arrived.

(I still have boxes with Byte and Circuit Cellar issues in my garage.)

When a digital format magazine arrives in my "Inbox", I rarely, if ever, even "open the cover".

Thanks to the Internet we a rapidly approaching the dream of "Content-Free Publishing" which is probably just as well, because 10 years from now for any media I have stored at my house I will no longer have the required reading device, electronics, or software, to read it anyway...

I like "Woodsmith". However, it would only appeal to those who like to do woodworking. If you want to learn woodworking, it is really good. Every issue presents an article on how to do a certain woodworking technique, then has a project plan that incorporates that technique.

Agree--As a Carpenter, boatbuilder etc, I read most of the woodworking, and boating publications, but only scan the ones that have interesting techniques of projects that I find useful--Also, Wooden Boat, National Fisherman, Our Local Outdoor Hunting and fishing updates, Keeping up with the new format for the America's Cup(Sailing), Stereophile, Some arcane audio publications, Nuts and Volts, Home Theater (As i am going to update my system and am looking for a high end Hard Drive system to replace my huge CD, DVD, and Analog collection of music and film), Sport Fishing--I tend to subscribe to publications within a year of projects that I am looking to upgrade my knowledge of a situation that I want to change in the near future--I can get the past publications on line--I guess I still miss holding the magazine in my hand, and thumbing thru the pages, back and forth--Costs money, but I can't see a Kindle in the loo----Yet...

Readers Digest is the only I get now. Used to love Pop Sci, but just don't seem to have the time anymore.

I, too, get a number of "digital" publications, but don't get into them too much, can't take them to the "throne room"

Tom D.

Gone are the sports, car, nature, and food magazines. So aside from the local newspaper, I still subscribe to Science News, offering digested versions of science stories and articles in a "dumbed-down" version I can usually comprehend. Although available on-line, I prefer not having to link to the article to then discover I'm not interested, and it remains open to the page I left it.

I still get "Astronomy" magazine - the photos are glorious.

And I just can't quit "Science News" - it's so easy to carry around and the articles are short, well-written, and always interesting. Excellent to read while waiting, and I seem to do a lot of waiting!

I still get Popular Science and National Geographic. Popular Mechanics has too many adds. I probably read one book a month in the bathroom and before I go to sleep. If I used my laptop in bed it would get busted falling on the floor when I fall asleep.
We also still get the newspaper (my wife likes to read the death notices). I download podcasts for the commute to work. I always have a stack of books I want to read but never enough time. I never travel without a book or two. Nothing worse than being at an airport with nothing to read.

Are "magazines" those things you find in waiting rooms?

Wired is one that I still get and enjoy. It's always well written and frequently features some very interesting articles, on all sorts of topics.

National Geographic is also one that I still get, mostly for the photography. There's something about viewing a well printed picture that you just can't replicate on a screen. And (is this weird?), the ink smells great. Gotta love VOC's!

I used to get Popular Mechanics, but I got sick of the watered down material and ridiculous over the top claims. I was talking about it with a fellow engineer recently, and he likened it to the tabloid magazine of engineering. I liked that analogy.

Magazines cost so much these days; I can't afford them. I either read them in the doctor's office or at the supermarket stand while I wait for my wife to shop. The content is all advertising, I find very little real information worth paying for. Some speciality magazines, like Live Steam, Home Machinist and Garden Railways contain information that one can actually use. Everything else is available on the internet.

Cycle World...but mostly just for the pictures.