What Magazines did you buy this Week?

[ShivaFan]

What Magazines did you buy this Week?

Another post first sent me on this inquiry when I noted that newspapers in the internet age are on their last breath, but magazines are still clinging onto survival.

Personally, I like magazines (because they have lots of pictures with the words and I am very visual, and ... well, I just like that shinny gloss on the paper, the photography and art, the sense of "luxuary" to them as well...

So I go by the bookstore, typically big chain but anyplace that has large selections of magazines, and about once every other week buy my fancy.

And I am sort of curious, which magazines did YOU buy at the "newsstand" this week or this month?

I will go first - my choices change week to week, month to month, whatever "attracts" my "fingers" (and brain) to explore. Tonight I picked up the Magazine titles (and perhaps the article(s) that attracted you to buy)

* Videomaker (March 2015) "Your Guide to Creating and Publishing Great Video"

* Artists & Makers (Spring 2015) "Yumiko Goto, Capturing Nature in Ceramics"

* The American Interest (March/April 2015) "The Coming Coup in China?"

 

[xkatz]

The only magazines that are worth reading IMHO are National Geographic and the Economist.

 

[ShivaFan]

I have been reading National Geographic since a tot. My God, I remember sitting with my Grandma, we would page though each magazine of NG each month like it was a religion almost. And I had EVERY MAP (they would come with big, paper fold out maps in those days), I would gaze at the map of India or Africa or China or Europe and so on and memorize countries - and islands were particularly fascinating and set off imagination.

Today of course, I often buy that magazine, as well as The Economist too. Both great. Great.

 

[Ingledsva]

We try to subscribe to the magazines we like. It is much cheaper that way.

National Geographic
Smithsonian
ARCHAEOLOGY
Biblical Archaeology
Scientific American, and MIND
WIRED
Coastal Living
Motorhome
And A friend drops off his Gun magazines once he has read them.

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[ShivaFan]

ARCHAEOLOGY and other Archaeology themed magazines (such as Ancient Egypt, American Archaeology and Bible Archaeology themes, Minerva and so on) must be hugely popular, I also buy these regularly. I think they really took off starting in the 1980s (for whatever reason, but I also noticed movie themes with a genre of this also became popular), and today I see a number of these magazines on the shelf.

I love those high quality British publications on archaeology, they are slightly larger in paper size and, well, very high quality in tone and content and worth the higher price.

As far as subscriptions to magazines, I tend to be the "grab the magazine off the shelf" based on my mood at the time rather than subscribe though I know I pay more as a result. The only subscriptions we have at this time are Hinduism Today, Ideas and Discoveries (ID) Magazine, and Faerie Magazine ... though there are times when I subscribe to more. I used to have a subscription to a couple of mags of an India history genre from India itself but the problem is sending the payment (sometimes they do not take credit card and want you to actually route the money over or cash or money order). I like subscriptions, but in my area half the magazines get stolen in the postal route, for example I had a subscription to a bird magazine and a comic book but mostly they would get stolen enroute. I would imagine subscriptions are big in Alaska.

Once I finish reading, I often bring the magazines to work and have them on top of a group table or the top of "jacket/coat" locker (but it doesn't lock) at my desk for all to read or take. But I also keep many magazines forever in plastic boxes in storage for ... (who knows).

 

[GoodbyeDave]

The only thing I buy in a shop is Radio Times: much more convenient than having to consult the computer to see what to listen to or watch. Various things turn up by post: magazines from Kew Botanic Gardens, the London Library, wargaming and philatelic societies, and charities. For academic journals, I rely on JSTOR.