Magazines. The kind made of paper.

[drlj]

Do any of you get any actual magazines anymore or have they gone the way of buggy whips?
I still get and enjoy Vintage Guitar and Fretboard Journal but I can’t think of any other magazine that shows up. We used to get several but, other than the two mentioned, which I still do look forward to getting, there are no others.
Just curious.

[Russell Letson]

The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Acoustic Guitar, plus Locus (for which I write).

I used to have a half-dozen or more magazine subscriptions at any given time--but then, I used to write for three or four at a time. Them days is gone.

For newspapers (NYT, WaPo) we have online subscriptions--though I do miss them when it's time to change the under-litter-box linings.

[Cornflake]

The New Yorker, a specialty photography magazine called Lens Work, the monthly Sierra Club magazine and the magazine for Arizona lawyers. Three of those are mostly immune to the financial pressures that killed the rest.

[TKennedy]

My Fretboard Journal and Acoustic Guitar subscriptions ran out. I still get the Guild Of American Luthiers journal and two papers, the Startrib and the Echo Press (local rag).

[millring]

I just renewed my AG subscription.

[james]

From time to time I buy Scientific American or New Scientist. More frequently UK satirical current affairs magazine, Private Eye. Other magazines catch my eye sometimes, often to read on buses, trains or planes.

[billhammond]

Todd turned me on to this paragon of journalism:

[drlj]

Barb tells me we also get Southern Living.

I got AG for a long time but haven’t for a while. I think about re-upping.

[Shannon]

I still get Acoustic Guitar and enjoy it.

[Russell Letson]

We have a special interest in Woman's World because for a while it ran short-short stories on the last page and paid pretty well (something like $1/word), which made it one of C's target markets. I don't think she ever cracked it, though she got a couple into Lady's Circle, including her first fiction publication back in 1981.

[RickW]

Fretboard Journal. I used to love a good magazine. Had subs to National Geographic, MacLeans (Canadian news mag,) Time for a while, Guitar Player a very long time ago. It’s a different experience sitting down with paper, and I used to love reading them through, the different columns they’d have. Still get that pleasure from FJ, though the temptation is go online with it. But…it’s such a beautiful mag, well written, great subjects, and I read it cover to cover every month.

[Cosmic Wonder]

Cooks illustrated, The Blue Beret (Quartely mag of the Wally Byam Airsteam Club,) . I finally let my Surferes Journal subscription lapse, I had stacks and stacks of them that I couldn’t give away, sad, because it was a class act. Most things are online now, so…

Mike

[Village Idiot]

May 11, 2023 15:56:25 GMT -5 billhammond said:

Todd turned me on to this paragon of journalism:

the whole thing is fabulous. The weekly quiz and the mini mystery are just do die for. But what I look forward to is the personality quiz. Like What Does Your Dream Vacation Say About Your Personality? Or This Quiz Will Reveal Which Inspiring Woman You Are Or Which Famous Woman From History Are You? There are just so many interesting things so ponder!

[epaul]

I get a little Mn Dept of Natural Resources publication called the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. It's published bi-monthly and I've been getting it ever since I was in sixth grade when I used it desperately to flesh out a bunch of empty pages in my Minnesota Scrapbook (a big, terrifying, right of passage project every sixth grader who ever walked the halls of Newfolden Elementary had to complete in order to get out).

The Volunteer is filled with lots and lots of nature photos and articles on everything from ants to zebra mussels, aquifers to watersheds.



www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/issues/2023/may-jun/index.html

[John B]

May 11, 2023 20:51:07 GMT -5 epaul said:

I get a little Mn Dept of Natural Resources publication called the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. It's published bi-monthly and I've been getting it ever since I was in sixth grade when I used it desperately to flesh out a bunch of empty pages in my Minnesota Scrapbook (a big, terrifying, right of passage project every sixth grader who ever walked the halls of Newfolden Elementary had to complete in order to get out).

The Volunteer is filled with lots and lots of nature photos and articles on everything from ants to zebra mussels, aquifers to watersheds.



www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/issues/2023/may-jun/index.html

I get this one.



www.in.gov/dnr/communications/outdoor-indiana-magazine-archives/outdoor-indiana-marchapril-2023/

[Dub]

I used to get the New Yorker but let it lapse. Fiddlerina gets Fiddler Magazine. Thirty years ago I used to get Fishing Facts and Bluegrass Unlimited.

I think the Smithsonian still comes.

I read a lot but mostly non-fiction ebooks on my Kobo Clara HD. If Kobo doesn’t have a book I want, I go for the hardback version. I’ve tried other e-readers, Kindle, Nook, etc., but the whole Kobo thing is a lot better than the others (device, store, everything) I hate reading on the others. Once in a while I’ll read a book on my iPad if it’s one that includes a lot images or diagrams, but the resolution on the Kobo and its ease of reading is much better than the iPad. The iPad is too intense and high-contrast for recreational reading.

[howard lee]

[Russell Letson]

Forgot that I still get Fretboard Journal (it only shows up every few months). I'm only missing #1.

On the shelves high above my keyboard are a long row of magazine files: AG, Fingerstyle Guitar, Just Jazz Guitar, Frets, and a bunch of miscellaneous short-run music magazines. Elsewhere in the house are long runs of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (20+ years worth), Analog, Galaxy, and selected copies of Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, and other pulps. The numerous computer magazines (PC, Byte, Creative Computing) are long gone, though I think I still have a complete run of Sextant, the Heath/Zenith computer rag that was my first regular writing gig.

So, yeah, I miss magazines.

[drlj]

I have FBJ from #1.
I had a box of Flatpicking Guitar and accompanying CDs in the storeroom from when we moved. I ordered magazine holders and sorted and organized them the other day. They are now neatly arranged on a shelf. That took a while but since they are great instructional magazines, filled with tab, I thought I would hold on to them rather than recycle.

[epaul]

Stereo Review, Hi Fidelity, Motor Trend, Road and Track, Field and Stream, Time, Atlantic Monthly, MAD... the mail box used to be full. The Internet emptied it.