What magazine(s) do you buy/subscribe?

Ahleckz said:
As I alluded to in my post, I like to read magazines on the toilet and also when on the train. I can't take my PC with me on the train! Plus, I find it more enjoyable to read printed mediums rather than sitting and looking at a screen. I spend most of my day looking at a computer, so it's nice to read in a different format.
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You're not aware of the various models of smartphones and tablets that are now widely available?
 
dowie said:
You're not aware of the various models of smartphones and tablets that are now widely available?
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I can't afford a smart phone at the moment, and nor did I particularly enjoy reading on them when I had one.
I have a tablet, and it's the same story. I find reading a proper magazine far nicer and easier.

Lysander said:
Oh yes you can. Trolly, portable generator, job done. Now stop making excuses.
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Ah, of course!
 
dowie said:
It was a valid enough substitute for the magazine I compared it with - it was an example....

FWIW you'll find that individual magazines also don't fulfill every interest...
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And why can't you understand some people still prefer magazines due to layout.
It's not just a hug bunch of information on a site. It's been sifted and put together in a meaningful way. This is starting to change, but we aren't there yet. Need more data mining and smart websites.
 
Lysander said:
They do. You're not looking in the right places. There are tonne of specialist underground print magazines.
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You misunderstood - the previous poster pointed out that the Bloomberg website doesn't fulfill every interest - I'm pointing out that a magazine (singular) doesn't either.
 
dowie said:
You misunderstood - the previous poster pointed out that the Bloomberg website doesn't fulfill every interest - I'm pointing out that a magazine (singular) doesn't either.
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But that wasn't what I was getting at.
You state one website, whoopie do da. Websites do not have the sifting and organizing magazines do. Using a news site isn't a good comparison. As its easy to sift news. Time, area and category.

Other topics are far harder to do.

Take a cooking magazine, it'll have ingredient ratings, equipment ratings, in depth techniques, recipes, Wine pairings and the rest. Formed together and over lapping to make them relavent to each other.
Website you don't get that. You just get a million and one unorganized articles.
 
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Glaucus said:
But that wasn't what I was getting at.
You state one website, whoopie do da. Websites do not have the sifting and organizing magazines do. Sing a news site isn't a good compromise. As its easy to sift news. Time, area and category.

Other topics are far harder to do.
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It was an example of freely available content that is arguably of a higher quality that one of the magazines mentioned in the OP....

edit - as you've edited your post to talk about cooking magazines I'll have to concede that I don't know anything about cooking magazines and so for that particular example I'll have to trust your own assertion that there aren't any good cooking websites that would make suitable substitutes for your cooking magazines.
 
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I don't subscribe to any at the moment - every so often I'll buy "Rhythm" (Drumming Magazine) or some sort of gadget magazine. I did use to by a lot of computer magazines but none anymore.
 
-Aviation Week & Space Technology
-Flying

Been subscribing to these for 3 yrs and being American mags they are cheaper than UK airplane mags. They also come with free access to the online versions - and the entire back catalog (Zinio).

If I do end up with a tablet one day I'll stop the paper subs.
 
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