What magazines do you subscribe to and why do you subscribe to them? I’ll start off with mine first to get the party started:
Harper’s. Overall my favorite magazine. I like the in-depth articles and the topics they cover.
The New Yorker. Started getting this one on accident, actually. I enjoyed the articles and decided to get a subscription of my own.
Wired. I got this one for free because of an already existing subscription. It’s moderately interesting, but I probably won’t resubscribe.
Chicago Magazine. I get this one because I live in Chicago and like to read about the goings on in the city. I also like it for the restaurant reviews.
Too lazy to look up the links, but what I’ve subscribed to (and intend to resubscribe, as some have lapsed recently) are:
Mac Addict Magazine. Because I’m a Machead, don’tcha know.
Mac Design Magazine. Awesome magazine.
Photoshop User Magazine. Part of the yearly membership to NAPP. I just let my membership lapse, but will renew eventually.
The Journal for Medical Transcriptionists, published by AAMT.org. (I can’t even remember what it’s called. Isn’t that pathetic?) I’m studying medical transcription—something that interests me.
Just subscribed the the Spanish language version of the Reader’s Digest. Because I learning Spanish (again).
I think that’s it. Oh, I’m also probably going to renew my subscription to L.A. Magazine.
Biography - probably my favorite but sometimes the articles are too short. Also, they tend to use other magazines text to write their own articles which is annoying.
Midwest Living - Well…I live in the midwest.
Diabetes Outlook - Mr. Ruby’s contribution to the household mags
Better Homes and Gardens - Eh. Probably won’t resubscribe
Reminisce - Another favorite. It’s a magazine with stories and photos of people living in generations before us. I find it facinating to see how people lived.
Playboy – for the articles, cartoons and naked chicks (order of importance fluctuates)
Rolling Stone – not as important to me as it used to be, but they got me to re-up to a long-term deal, so I think I will be getting the magazine several years after I have been dead
*Analog * - plain old fashioned “hard” Science Fiction
*Fantasy and Science Fiction * - for the book reviews more than anything else; I’m letting it lapse, as the quality of the writing is a little sketchy
National Geographic - I tried to let it lapse, and the kids revolted
*The Economist * - for the international perspective
*Harvard Business Review * - to impress co-workers
*CIO * - it’s free
American Heritage * - I think this was a school fundraiser. Some interesting little-known stuff in it
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Bible Review - it gets me into parts of the Bible I wouldn’t ordinarily take an interest in, and I **love ** the cancel-my-subscription letters!
Once a year I make a donation to the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburgh, just so they’ll keep sending me their quarterly journal. Densely written Liberal Lutheran Theology at its, well, densest.
Atlantic Monthly;
Backpacker (out of habit at this point)
The Week[URL=http://www.theweekmagazine.com/] which is quickly becoming my favorite magazine with a great combination of serious and light hearted fare. “The best mag to read on the hopper ever,” Mad Monk28, SDMB
BeBoy Gold - a Japanese manga magazine with furigana
Hanaoto - manga without furigana
I used to subscribe to a lot like Harpers, Newsweek, Smithsonian, Brill’s (when it was still around) but I’ve become obsessed with learning Japanese and that’s all I read now.
All three major sf magazines, F&SF, Analog and Asimov’s though I don’t have time to read them much - it’s for my collection. I’ve subscribed to F&SF since 1968.
At work I get a bunch of trade rags, and I get a bunch of IEEE journals on computers, test and CAD, one of which I’m on the editorial board of.
I used to get Scientific American, Wired, and Games, but I got overwhelmed and cut back.
My wife, though, gets about a dozen fitness magazines. I swear they run the same articles every month. How many methods can there be for getting six-pack abs?
