And you don’t have to worry about the old articles disappearing(unlike the internet). I have had numerous websites I enjoyed get shut down and their content lost forever. I can keep old print magazines forever if I choose.
That’s what I thought too, but it’s not that bad. Your brain adjusts to the different format. Plus it’s pretty cool to be able to always have a book on you.
I definitely prefer a dead tree book, but I always have a few books downloaded to my phone just in case I’m stuck somewhere without internet access. It’s not too bad, even on a device as small as a phone.
I can’t remember the last time I went in a B&N, but I do remember that they seemed to have a smaller selection of magazines. It was still several racks though. This was at the Streets at Southpoint Mall in Durham, NC.
Interesting points, thank you!
Yes. The fact is that you will probably have hard copy Look magazines from the 1960s still existing 200 years from now, whereas most Web content will have disappeared entirely.
What I’ve noticed is that most of the magazines I see are special one-subject issues, like all about Taylor Swift or whatever.
Yeah, I see those in the supermarket all the time. I don’t know who would buy most of them.
I assume fans of Taylor Swift (or whatever the subject).
Taylor Swift I get, but most of the topics do not seem to have much of a fanbase…
Then there’s the floor of L-pop and the floor with nothing but copies of mmmbop.
I used to buy magazines occasionally about 6 or 7 years ago usually when I was traveling. What I found out back then was there were some magazines - particularly computer magazines (hardware etc) were several different issues which seemed to consist of different layouts of some of the same articles just repeated every 4 or so months.
I no longer have to go read magazines because since Covid my local library has over 3,000 magazines online that I can read on my Ipad.
I think it’s not the fans of the topic, but people who know a fan and think it would make a good gift. My cite is my in-laws have bought me several of these on the mistaken notion that I’m interested. I’ve got ones about the Dead, Bob Dylan, and Mad magazine compilations (of issues I own and have read dozens of times)
Guess the Hanson brothers were famous for starting fights… wait, maybe that was Slapshot…
I buy some. Special issues on the history of James Bond, or All About Dogs, or Nat Geo Wonders of the Heavens, or the latest Titanic info. I bought one on the history of film noir that was pretty good, if basic*. I pass on Star Trek/Star Wars themed ones, but if I were in my 20s I probably would buy them.
I don’t think they are the best value for the money, but they aren’t bad. They’re good “starters”. I’ve never seen anything wrong in their info, just not a lot I didn’t already know.
*but, it got me to watch Laura and Out of The Past, two films I had missed. Both were very good.
For previous generations, it was television and air conditioning.
Interesting observation, thank you!
They had a lot fewer options to watch on television and air conditioning by itself is pretty boring. And they certainly didn’t have the ability to take care of almost every errand online.
I’m starting to love magazines. On Sundays I try to take a break from screens. It’s the perfect time to break out a magazine. Right now I’m subscribed to Tricycle, the quarterly Buddhist review.
I get The Atlantic and Scientific American free on my Kindle but it has to compete with all my Kindle books. I would love to get more paper magazine subscriptions.
I do love Kindle. The convenience of use, in the bed, in the bath, in the waiting room, on vacations etc is worth more to me than proper ownership of a physical object. I do purchase hard copies of the books I love, but unless it’s a very visual or instructional book, my preference is Kindle. I have a few hard copy books waiting to be read that are just languishing because of my preference for Kindle.
PressReader is awesome. But several magazines I like aren’t there.
I often try to kill some time at the magazine rack in my local Shoppers Drug Mart while waiting for prescriptions. It has perhaps 50 “magazines” but the majority of them are the fake magazines referred to above (e.g. dedicated to one celebrity or movie). The rest are split up between health & fitness, home décor/cooking, and a few puzzle magazines: no general news or science magazines.