Magazines seem to pile up around our house. My wife asks me to go through them when the stack gets big and I find that I haven’t read most of them. It’s not all my fault...I really only subscribed to two, Premier Guitar and Car and Driver. I hadn’t been a C&D subscriber for years, but they offered me something like 3 years for $20 and I thought, “Why not.”

The rest come with memberships. Alumni association magazine, NRA membership magazine. I get two because of the car organization we joined: a national and a regional publication. Recently, my BIL gifted me with a G&A Handguns subscription.

Just like that, 7 magazines/month and if I read a few things out of 3 or 4 of them, I consider it a success. You folks? Still get magazines? Do you read them? I do most of my reading before lights out, in bed, and that’s books.

I like hard copy. Really not a fan of reading electronic versions of magazines or books.

Only at the doctors office

I still get Anerican Rifleman. Back in the 1960s it was worth reading and saving. Now, like most magazines, it’s mostly advertising and articles that are essentially advertisements.
Good for a few minutes of entertainment whilst seated on the commode and nothing more. I sure wouldn’t pay anything for a magazine any more.

"..only for the articles"....Never the pictures !!!! LOL

Military Officer
Nature (science journal)
QST (ham radio)
The American Rifleman Hopefully everyone at least knows what that is, because I am literally astonished when I see comments saying that there’s nothing worthwhile reading in the magazine. It has great history and some of the most detailed and authoritative information about current firearms-related topics. I suspect the reason some people don’t like it is because it exposes them to the hard truths about how important their contributions are to fighting gun rights infringements, and they don’t like being reminded of what they should be doing. Then again, I suppose my own thirst for knowledge isn’t typical.

I do not like reading periodicals or books on a computer that require me to sit in an office chair. Advertising is also harder to ignore.

I used to read all the gun rags. Now, you get the same info on-line. The print magazines are more like pamphlets.

Of course, once you read those fish wrappers for a few years, you realize the same articles keep appearing over and over.

I do, but only because I love to read. But I agree most magazines are just advertisements.
Subscription List:
American Rifleman.
American Handgunner.
Firearms News. (so I can read about what everyone in the Balkans was armed with during WWI. )
Gun Tests.
Popular Mechanics
Blade.
Rider.

No with being on the move in an RV, I will request E copies when ever possible. Books are all on our kindles. Music CDs have all been converted to MP3 files.

I still subscribe to a number of gun and car magazines. i don't like the digital version.

I've noticed in the last couple years that my gun, hot rod, and guitar magazines are all about 90% advertisements and 10% vendor paid endorsements made to look like articles.
I've cancelled every magazine.

Only subscription is Road and Track and a 1-year lark on Popular Mechanics for about $5... Also get three mags from two car owner club affiliations, college alumni mag, NRA mag.

Have gotten much better about tossing them ASAP rather than moving them around the house. Definitely didn't move the 20 years of R&T on our last relocation.....

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
Only subscription is Road and Track and a 1-year lark on Popular Mechanics for about $5... Also get three mags from two car owner club affiliations, college alumni mag, NRA mag.

Have gotten much better about tossing them ASAP rather than moving them around the house. Definitely didn't move the 20 years of R&T on our last relocation.....

Very similar to me.

Negative, they're a pain in the ass stacking up in my living room. I'm an internet sort of guy.

Still have a full library at home....

Love the feel of paper and the smell of old books.

I still get Grey's Sporting Journal, American Rifleman, Guns and Ammo, Smithsonian, and Garden & Gun. The last is for the spousal unit.

No reader beats the real thing.

Andrew

Nope. Internet.

I still subscribe to a few magazines. I like to turn the physical pages when reading in bed. I will miss them. As soon as print media can not sell enough advertising, they will be gone. They will all be gone in a few years. I have a large stash of music and car mags from the last 30 years. I enjoy re-reading them with no pop-up ads. The next generation will not be reading print media. Sad.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
I still get Anerican Rifleman. Back in the 1960s it was worth reading and saving. Now, like most magazines, it’s mostly advertising and articles that are essentially advertisements.
Good for a few minutes of entertainment whilst seated on the commode and nothing more. I sure wouldn’t pay anything for a magazine any more.

I get AR and G&A as throne reading.

flashguy

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It has great history

Agreed. It used to be worthwhile. Check out one of the issues from 50 years ago and compare them to the slender, lame ad-filled issues of today.

“I suspect the reason some people don’t like it is because it exposes them to the hard truths about how important their contributions are to fighting gun rights infringements, and they don’t like being reminded of what they should be doing.”

I’ve been a Life Member of NRA since the early 1980s and am a regular contributor to their efforts defending the 2nd Amendment. If your post was directed at me, you’re mistaken. It’s apparently popular and cool to not support the NRA for reasons like “I don’t like LaPierre”, or “they ask for money too often”, but the fact remains that the NRA is probably the reason we don’t have gun laws like most of the rest of the countries in the world.

I Subscribe to Fine Woodworking, Wooden Boat and we get two NRA magazines. Also get one or two BMW motorcycle magazines. Keep them all, have built vertical stacks for storage.