Poll: Do you still buy Magazines?

If you buy paper magazines do you?

  • Buy them in person

    Votes: 10 43.5%

  • Have a subscription

    Votes: 13 56.5%
  • Total voters
    23

till late 90's used to buy PCW(several boxes in loft worth something?), and American magasine Climbing ,
Miss the tactility, convenience(sofa/bed/plane) and even printed image quality those offered ... maybe if you have a thin OLED tablet you can have same experience,
journalism quality was also better (big distribution and could afford wages for good people) versus dumbe-down newer internet sites on same topics

Probably need to expand discussion to books
 
I haven’t bought a paper one for yonks, at least 10 years I’d say. I did have a sub to a few back in the day.
BowdonUK said:
Parents buy a daily newspaper, though I think it's mainly for the tv guide.

I used to buy a computer magazine. I've bought private eye in the recent past. I'm still open to buying magazines if I find a good one.

I find magazines have a higher quality level than websites.

10 years ago I used to read a lot of newspapers daily, 4 nationals and 3 local/regional papers.
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my gran still gets the daily paper just for the tv guide. I keep telling her there is a guide on sky but she won’t use it.
 
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Reuben klang said:
I haven’t bought a paper one for yonks, at least 10 years I’d say. I did have a sub to a few back in the day.

my gran still gets the daily paper just for the tv guide. I keep telling her there is a guide on sky but she won’t use it.
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Yes, the tv guide issue is the same thing for my parents too.

I did consider buying the tv times magazine. But they are always out of stock.
 
I still have a big pile of old guitar mgazines, and will occasionally dig out something from twenty years back to play.

It is a LOT easier to have sheet music on paper than on screen.
 
potatolord said:
I still have a big pile of old guitar mgazines, and will occasionally dig out something from twenty years back to play.

It is a LOT easier to have sheet music on paper than on screen.
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I used to have a huge pile of total guitars, gave them to an ex's little brother when he wanted to learn to play. I just use ultimate guitar app these days or just work it out by ear.
 
gingergundog said:
Haha whats the condition like? Curled up at the edges and covered in tea stains?
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its actually a hard plastic one and its great as i use it while sat on the sofa as the pc is wired up to the living room tv. The problem is its warped and barely usable but its hard to find a hard mousemat these days thats not huge, i should just buy a normal one and stick it to some wood but im to lazy :D
 
iron_monkey said:
I used to have a huge pile of total guitars, gave them to an ex's little brother when he wanted to learn to play. I just use ultimate guitar app these days or just work it out by ear.
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I've got a stack of those, and guitar techniques.

I don't really like reading off a screen, and scrolling is just annoying. Probably just because I am old, to be fair.
 
potatolord said:
I've got a stack of those, and guitar techniques.

I don't really like reading off a screen, and scrolling is just annoying. Probably just because I am old, to be fair.
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Well im old and i agree with you, i do like being able to watch the music video from within the app though and some even have links to tutorials which is nice if you're struggling to work something out.
 
Only buy magazines if theres a particular article on something of interest and I want to keep a hard copy or for something to read in an airport lounge or something but otherwise I don't. I would buy more but the price of them £5+ for a glossy magazine that'll last a half hour tops? Too rich for me.

Reuben klang said:
my gran still gets the daily paper just for the tv guide. I keep telling her there is a guide on sky but she won’t use it.
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My mothers the same and theres even a button labelled Guide on the remote but she won't use it it it just doesn't register told her enough times but nope
 
I subscribe to:

Economist (for about 25yrs)
Edge (for about 10yrs)
BBC history magazine (~2yrs)

My kids also have subs to aquila, and national geographic

Occasionally I will subscribe to pc pro for a few months when there is a good deal.

I am very nostalgic for the magazine boom years in the 90s. I used to love amiga format/amiga power, then edge and various pc mags. As a teenager in the mid-90s I also used to enjoy the lad mags like loaded and fhm. Times have changed, world's sexiest woman awards would not be allowed now!

Although Internet has destroyed magazines, I don't think the quality of writing is as good, and I think it is certainly getting worse. Sites like eurogamer and rps used to be more quirky and weird, but these days what they put out is incredibly dull.
 
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I haven't bought magazines for a long time. It seems to me that the reason is that now people can choose what to read, each article separately.
 
gingergundog said:
PC Gamer sub but need to cancel it really as I barely read it these days. I used to have the better PC Zone but was moved over when it was canned.
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PC Zone had some quality staff at its peak - I used to hang out on IRC with a bunch of them back in I guess the late 90s - so long I've forgotten now.

These days far too often people do stuff like that either purely as a career or when it is a passion it is more a kind of by the numbers thing for want of a better way to explain it rather than a deep creative passion.
 
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Radio Times and BBC History.

Tv listings is easier to flick through. Though sometimes schedules change and use the Sky Q EPG to see updates
 
Have Top Gear delivered every month, as someone has already said I prefer to have hold of the paper copy than the digital, feels like you've bought something
 
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