Print publications you subscribe to?

We were down to none for a couple of years, but honestly, we found that whatever spare moments we had to read something, we ended up on Facebook or mindless digital content. My wife would sit at the breakfast table thumbing through catalogs she'd already flipped through.

As my photography business picked up, I began reading more on the subject but I was paying rack prices and it seemed like a waste of money. So I subscribed to a couple photography mags and my wife picked out a couple of mags. Then my nephews had a fundraiser from which I subscribed to two more magazines, and then I got an offer on Black Friday for four free magazine subscriptions with a purchase I already planned to make, so we added to the pile.

Now, I'm not sure we can keep up with them all. I'll probably drop Food & Wine, Car & Driver and GQ when the free subscriptions run out (I'd have preferred Esquire to GQ, but it wasn't included in the deal)

 

Sports Illustrated
ESPN: The Magazine
New York magazine (a former employer)
The New Yorker (as a donation gift)
Glamour
my alma maters' alumni magazines (one monthly, one quarterly)

My mom has a print subscription to her local paper and a digital subscription to the one for which I work via my employee discount. Does that count?


I dropped my weekend subscription to The New York Times after discovering the sections I wanted to read were piled up near the couch, and that I got almost all the same information via push e-mail.

I used to get Rolling Stone as a gift from my grandmother, but that subscription lapsed after she died... and I didn't notice for more than a year. I've been thinking about signing up again because I don't normally see that content online.

I also get a weekly listings magazine which is now distributed free. I didn't realize I still had a paid subscription until the renewal notice, at which point I also realized I hadn't received an issue for quite a while. I called customer service and got a free year. I won't pay again, because the print edition arrives too late for the events to be useful.

 

Esquire, though they have tended to pile up in the last couple of years. In days past, I would read every article, but these days I flip through and maybe read one before it hits the magazine rack, never to be read again.

 

How on earth do you have time to read all that? I only subscribe to:
New Yorker
Economist
New York Review of Books

And I still can't find time to keep up, even though I commute 3 hours per day on the train. Probably bc I tend to read books

 

I used to be a dedicated cover-to-cover reader of my subscriptions, but far less so these days. Aside from my photography subscriptions, I mostly flip through to find something of interest and skip the rest. Part of that, I shit you not, is that I no longer read them in the bathroom (TMI? ).

 

I also read 3-4 books a month. I don't have kids, so right there, I've got more time than most people my age.

 

Acoustic Guitar - my only hard-copy subscription

 

Whatever gets delivered incorrectly.

 

Titles we receive:

--Vanity Fair
--Entertainment Weekly
--Popular Science
--Wine Spectator
--Fortune
--Conde Nast Traveler
--Sunset

Titles we would receive if A) my credit-card points hadn't been on the verge of expiring with only a slew of magazines as viable choices to use them; and B) the neighbors didn't hit me up to subscribe as part of the school fundraising drive:
--None

Actually that might not be totally true. I have gone on and off with VF for about 15 years, but every month I find enough interesting reads to make it worthwhile. I have enjoyed Fortune in the short time I've had it too. It was really awesome at the height of the election when I left the Trump cover out during a party!

Wine Spectator is like when I got a freebie to Runner's World many years ago. I can put aside a year's worth and use them as reference forever.

 

Will have to look in my basket of magazines when I get home for the full list, but the two magazines I most look forward to are The Economist and BloombergBusinessweek. (Although I think the Economist is overrated, and that BW is underrated.) Seeing them in my mailbox on Saturday afternoon is often one of the highlights of my week. (What an exciting life I live!)

On the other hand, I'm much less excited about getting the New Yorker each week than I used to be. Rarely read more than an article in each issue, if that.

 

Are they sending you issues from the 70s?

 

Sports Illustrated
Rolling Stone

I also get the Baseball America digital edition.

I used to get The Economist but even though I am a commuter you have to set aside a load of time every week to read it and it is expensive - at least here in Canuckistan - and I finally gassed my longtime Playboy subscription after three issues of their new direction because it is absolute shit.