# To what magazines do you subscribe, and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 1, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927 "2002-06-01T19:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/21 "2002-06-02T03:48:03Z")
Runner’s World Handguns Smart Computing self explanatory ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/22 "2002-06-02T04:00:25Z")
My aunt gave me a three year subscription to Time. I read it, but I get more excited about the local Sunday paper and the Memphis Flyer (which has a Straight Dope column!). My daughter gets: -Discover -National Geographic -Smithsonian -Seventeen (gotta balance it out somehow!) -some archaeology mag that she hasn’t received yet. -The Voice of the Martyrs. It’s about missionary work, but she likes it for the stories about kids in other countries. -Zoobooks. It’s geared towards younger kids, but she loves animals so I keep up the subscription for her. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/23 "2002-06-02T05:09:56Z")
**Forbes** because I accidentally signed up for it. **Details** tells me what clothes to buy. **Rolling Stone** because I like music **Maxim** has neat articles and allows me to torture myself. **Sports Illustrated** because there is at least one good article per issue. I also buy **Stuff** every issue. I buy this because it, also, turns a certain body part a lovely shade of blue. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/24 "2002-06-02T05:10:17Z")
Entirely too many. Except we love them all. Newsweek–for general news The Blood Horse–for the horse racing obsessed me 🙂 Car and Driver–for the car obsessed hubby Music Connection–for my musician hubby Discover–we’re both scientifically curious and tend to wrestle over who gets custody of it first Maxim–our most recent subscription. And it’s for me, not the hubby. I love the articles and the attitude…I’ve bought each of the last 4 issues and read them cover to cover. Love it! Plus we get the courtesy magazines from AAA and NEA memberships. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/25 "2002-06-02T05:24:54Z")
I don’t subscribe to any magazines, but I occasionally pick up issues of Scientific American, Discover, and Circuit Cellar if they look interesting. I also receive the Journal of the American Medical Association sporadically because the previous resident never sent them a forwarding address. It can be an interesting read. ---
**Author:** ![Jenner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@Jenner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenner)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/26 "2002-06-02T06:10:46Z")
I’m down do Scientific American right now, but at various times I’ve subscribed to Discover, Motor Trend, The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Popular Mechanics, and Popular Science. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/27 "2002-06-02T18:01:08Z")
I don’t subscribe to anything at the moment, because I never had time to get around to reading all the magazines I did get. But of the ones I used to get, I would consider renewing **Air and Space** (the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s magazine) and **On Track** (a pretty good auto racing magazine). ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/28 "2002-06-02T21:25:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dreamer \* > \*\ ***Reader’s Digest** - great bathroom reading material 🙂 > **Guitar Player** - for Mr. dreamer > **Guitar One** - another for Mr. dreamer > **Renaissance** - because we’re addicted to Faire \*\* [small hijack] Until I was about 13, I thought it was called _Digest_ because you read it when you were finished _digesting_. Honest. I never saw it anywhere other than my grandparents’ bathrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/29 "2002-06-02T21:48:42Z")
I get: Wired Playboy Maxim Stuff Golf Magazine American Rifleman I cancelled Rolling Stone and Spin a couple of years ago, because I felt they don’t talk about music enough. Thats the reason I would read them, not liberal politics. I’ve been meaning to check out Blender, which is a music mag by the Stuff/Maxim editors. Anyone know if it’s any good? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/30 "2002-06-03T00:02:09Z")
**Scientific American** I’m thinking about **The Economist** , but so far SciAm is the only one I know I’ll read regularly enough to make subscribing worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/31 "2002-06-03T15:23:45Z")
**Entertainment Weekly** - Easy reading, weekly, and cheap. **Premiere** - Good articles, tho a bit slow sometimes. **Cinefex** - Cool pictures and exhaustive articles. Very pricey though. **Dr. Dobb’s Journal** - They send it free now, but very technically interesting **Maxim** - Mindless entertainment. **Stuff** - They just started sending it. Who knows why. **CMJ Monthly** - For the included CD. **Wired** - Good articles. I could swear I stopped paying for some of these after they expired, and they still come. So be it. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/32 "2002-06-03T15:31:25Z")
_Harper’s_ for intelligent commentary on culture and politics. Plus good short stories. _The New Yorker_ for a lighter version of the same thing. _The Wall Street Journal_ (not really a magazine, I know,) for the cardiovascular workout I get from swearing and screaming at the op-ed page. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/33 "2002-06-03T15:47:26Z")
Playboy (did you know they have pictures of naked women in there?) I get it for the Playboy Interview. Architectural Digest Southern Living Vanity Fair (great reading by the pool) ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/34 "2002-06-03T15:57:42Z")
I only get Backpacker and American Rifileman right now. I like Backpacker because it lets me know that there are still beautiful places out there beyond the cities and the other one was free with my NRA membership. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/35 "2002-06-03T16:08:26Z")
I subscribe to the following: _Baltimore Magazine_ Great for restaurant reviews and drooling over real estate property I can’t afford right now. _Metropolitain Home_ Love the decorating ideas and we found our TV stand in there, too! I plan to renew our subscription to _Food and Wine_ soon, too. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/36 "2002-06-03T16:37:40Z")
I get: \*\*Sports Illustrated Time Nat’l Geographic Fortune Rolling Stone Harvard Business Review \*\* I also get **12** work related journals/trade mags per month. Cripes, no wonder I never watch TV! ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/37 "2002-06-03T17:01:26Z")
I get **The Economist** just so I can look smarter than everyone else. Or does **The Economist** actually make me smarter than everyone else? Hmm. I also read **Atlantic Monthly**. And I get a tiny little rag called **Estafilade** , a historical fencing journal. I’m on the board of the organization and have contributed to it in the past. No idea when we are going to get the latest issue out, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/38 "2002-06-03T20:58:10Z")
My mag subscriptions have run out, but those I’d normally subscribe to are: \*\* Practical Horseman Smithsonian National Geographic\*\* At work I often pick up free copies of **The Econmist**. I love it for it’s slightly less American-centric view of world politics. StG ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/39 "2002-06-04T16:35:25Z")
Me: PC Gamer Computer Gaming World Husband: Maxim Dungeon I used to have subscriptions to Reader’s Digest and Yahoo! Internet Life. I let my subscription to RD go, but I think my Yahoo! subscription just expired and they didn’t send me another issue. I loved that magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927/40 "2002-06-04T16:40:57Z")
cycle world- i like Kevin Cameron’s colum and i like to stay up on the new stuff american motorcyclist- comes with my AMA membership Rolling Stone- like an idiot, i used my credit card to subscribe and now cant make it stop!! i enjoyed this magazine 15 years ago, but it sucks now. nothing but video games, kiddie bands and crap, with ultra-liberal politics thrown in. the kid likes to tear it up, though. (i really don’t like it cause it makes me realize how old and un-cool i have become :D) * * * Jesus was in a coma. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-and-why/111927.md?page=3)