I like to sit and read magazines. I like reading from paper. I like the feel of a magazine in my hand. I like the smell. I like to turn pages. I like to sip a cup of tea with my read. I like to eat a cream cake while reading. Usually on a Thursday
I tend to buy Custom PC monthly and Micro Mart weekly.
As with all the web sites, with magazines you also have to judge the value of what you read and seperate the wheat from the chaff.
Imho magazines tend to avoid the brash, over-opinionated accuracy-challenged, ego-rich, loud, ranting nonsense which fills so many web sites and forums.
But it is not either/or. There is room in the world for both hard copy and virtual articles.
Some web sites are excellent. Many real enthusiasts share valuable information on t'internet.
Magazines allow me to be exposed to what its editors think I need to know. Reading magazines, like watching TV, is a passive process.
On the Weird Wide Web I can actively hunt down what I want to know about. Gather a plethora of personal opinions and experiences presented as religious fact then sift out the nuggets of truth. Web browsing is an active goal driven process.
There is greater technical depth and range of coverage on the web, but magazines do give a nice simplistic wide ranging overview.
One major problem with the web and its forums is that ill thought out opinions and ideas become "facts" by the simple means of mindless repetition.