Do you subscribe to magazines?

::falls off chair laughing at oxymoron::

OK, I'm done laughing now. I think we've still got 40,000 back issues of Archeology Today or something still in the spare room. Sigh. Not mine, HSA's mum's.

I haven't subscribed to a magazine since CTCL. Before that, is was Select. Every time I subscribe, the magazine goes out of business, so I've decided not to be the harbinger of doom.

Select, one year (special offer, free kettle, 2 mugs and some coffee. Kettle got used loads, and is still 'reserve' for main kettle failure.)

Mojo (current), as freebie was Buzzcocks singles boxset.

Magazine subscriptions make very good gifts I think.

My wife happily subscribes to the Horrible Histories magazines, which her class of 10 year olds adore. I doubt I'll see any ILXers in there.

None. The problem with computing magazines is that they can't be more up to date than the news that's already announced and all over the web. I'd say just go to http://www.macuser.com if anything.

kyle are you spelling this "the gaelic way"?

I've dumped Film Comment and Juxtapoz since, how many stories about Fincher script attachments or hot rod art does one man really need? I've only added Found Magazine, but will be picking up the glorious New American Paintings soon. (!!!)

At least w/the New Yorker you can read it online, which in a pinch (meaning while my gf has it), is what I have been forced to do.

Other than that, I pay for subscriptions to ReadyMade magazine (DIY design/furnishings/etc.) and Juxtapoz (outsider art?).

Oh, I also get the mag that is like Us & The Star, but I can't think of the name. In-something or other.

John Waters has over 100 magazine subscriptions. I had a list from Utne Reader at one point I could go look for later. It was fucking insane.

I got sort of psyched because I saw NY Review of Books copies in the recycling room in the name of the old dude who lives next door to me, kind of want to hang with him now.

We still get the print NYer and Nat Geo. While R does read the print edition, I mostly read it on my phone now, if at all, and generally both find most use as backing for doing the NYT crossword puzzle, which we print at home, and the privilege of doing so is the only thing we pay the NYT for.

Our print diet has led me to stop using adblockers online, but not to start signing up for microtransactions.

I feel like if I could sign up for an annual package that paid Balloon Juice, TPM, Eschaton, the entire Gawker stable, LGM, and maybe a few others that I dip into occasionally, and ILX (why not), we would gladly drop something in the upper two figures a year for that. Maybe there's a market gap in offering that kind of option. I don't want to just pitch $5 each to everything I like every few months or so, it's too much to think about. Basically I want eMusic for blogs.

I do prefer reading the NYer in print vs on my phone, never really get through longform articles on screen.

Bump!

$80 for one year sub for NY Review of Books. I really want it but that's pricey. I can't tell if it's weekly or biweekly?

I've been so bad about keeping up with my Scientific American and Harpers' subs recently (or not so recently - I'm more than a year behind in SA issues).

biweekly im p sure

biweekly. it's better than harper's.

you also get access to the archives

so you can get further behind

i have v v v v complicated feelings abt harper's but it's so insanely cheap that it is sort of immune to evaluation

anyway subscribing to magazines rules

It does. Don't think I could subscribe to LRB (although any of your gift one-year subscriptions to me will be gratefully accepted). NYRB is tempting for the archive (when I first had a LRB sub I was so glad I had a not very intensive job, could read the archives all day - and with guys like Perry Anderson you need all of your day)

biweekly. it's better than harper's.

you also get access to the archives

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so you can get further behind

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Haha, I big reason I keep falling behind is I started reading every Harper's issue from 1990 to the current day. This is what I do at work when I'm supposed to be working. Started about a year ago. I've just reached 1994, I think.

I would totally get lost on NYRoB's archives. *tempting*

nyrb is biweekly but then rather less so during the summer