man i havent read my new yorkers in so long, also i just subscribed to harpers they have an app now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
I let my subscription lapse (as is my wont around December) so I'm owed a couple.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
I got a weird passive aggressive renewal notice the other day, I think because they had the wrong expiration date on my card so couldn't push through the auto renewal. The note implored me to correct my files so that it could ... charge me the insane amount of $89.99 for the year? Yeah, I'll get right on that, New Yorker. I called them instead to see what was up, and with some prodding I talked them down to $69.99 or so. But I wasn't done, because I had seen some promo rate of $50 for the year and told them I saw it on a New Yorker affiliated subscription site (true), the same official site that regularly handles their renewals. The nice woman paused then said, defeated: "We will honor that rate."
Me, for the win.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
still mad i didn't go that route for my $25 rate i had 5-6 years ago
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 16 January 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I had this awesome rate, too, that spoiled me a bit, but I figure a buck an issue I can more than live with, given it takes me months to actually read one.
I had a sub to Wired that was something like three years for $12. It was just silly-cheap for a solid magazine, and I haven't had the heart to sub at a higher rather since. But I know promos float around, so I'll just wait, biding my time, for the right moment to pounce.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
canadians pay $90 :(
it's still like less than $2 an issue for an entire year tho
RIGHT?!?!?
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
just get the app mane
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
i feel totally happy paying full price btw the nyer is good and i want them to flourish in this v trying time for print publications
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
i reallly prefer the real thing
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
reading on the app is fine but browsing old issues, having a stack of them in your bathroom, etc, aint the same
do whatever you want in yr bathroom man thats none of my business destroy the world and all the trees idc
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
why dont you destroy the developing world with all your rare earth materials while im cutting down the trees
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
ipads are essential to my lifestyle i apologize to no one
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
i hate reading things on screens
yes, i appreciate the ironing
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
I feel like I have this weird mini-buzz of anxiety reading the NYer app, like I need to rush through the story for some reason. not as chill as reading papes
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
i read plenty of nyer articles on my phone, v enjoyable experience imo
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
how can you "read" soemthing on a phone, unless you mean someone is reading it over the phoen to you?
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
no piles of magazines no need to be in the place where the magazine is delivered to
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
My wife totally makes me read articles to her.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
well i guess we know who wears the pants in this family huh fellas
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
ouch!
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
i have to tell it how it is im just that real
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
the cool thing about the digital subscription is you can pay for a single month's subscription-- you end up paying like $15 more over the course of a year but w/e
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
i'm that guy who prints out longer articles from the web to read at home
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
It takes a real man to read a whole 23-page story about human suffering in Syria or whatever out loud.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Actually, what usually happens is that I make it several pages in, then she tells me to stop. So the next day I look for the issue, to finish the story, and she's taken it to finish on the train. And then she forgets it at work. So I never learn how they end!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
marriage!
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
It's all about teamwork: I start reading the articles and she finishes them.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
you really read them out loud?
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Not all of them. But sometimes, yeah!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
only in new york
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
that is real love
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nprQDt7zoEA
― balls, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
Real love is having two print subscriptions so you don't have to share.
I'm finding that I get through issues more speedily on the kindle! Like I actually finish the articles I want to read, instead of dog-earring the pages in print and then letting the pile up until I move house.
― quincie, Friday, 17 January 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago
why marriage is doomed
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 January 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
What about the POEMS?
― tbd (Eazy), Friday, 17 January 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hey there
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 17 January 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
it's always a treat spotting a dude on the train reading something from a website he printed out at the office, people watching bonus points
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 17 January 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Sticking it to The Man, one A4 sheet at a time.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
neat article: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/the-ipod-of-prison-sony-radio.html
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 January 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
great read
― Mordy , Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter
putting this here so i remember to read it
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.readability.com dude
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
use pocket instead or something
― markers, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
Or fold the fucking page over like every other person on the planet
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Ugh I hate Patricia Marx so much. Her shopping updates were dumb enough, but this week she writes about taking a trip on a freighter, which is potentially interesting, but her writing is so self-centered and cutesy and trite that the piece is totally worthless.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
i have never been able to figure out if those shopping articles are satire or not
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
There's this part of the freighter article where she starts talking about the crew and their lives and for a few paragraphs it's actually a decent article but then she has to go back to describing her shitty cabin and what stuff she packed and what food she ate and it's so awful.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit that Syngenta article
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
"Ya fulla my jizz right now"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link