What magazines do you get in the mail on a regular basis (that you pay to be subscribed to)?
(Me, none…but if I could afford it, I’d probably subscribe to Mad, Games, Total Film, Rolling Stone, WWE, WWE Raw, and Playboy (for the articles)(no, really))
Reader’s Digest and Smithsonian.
Mom sends me Readers Digest, mrAru gets Popular Mechanics [I think, I see them pop up every now and again around the house] and as a whim I get Fortean Times.
Smithsonian and Cook’s Illustrated.
I used to get National Geographic, but switched to the iPad version to try that out. So far, so good - it’s actually formatted for the iPad, and includes video and other multimedia.
Smithsonian also has an iPad version that comes free with a paid magazine subscription. Haven’t played too much with it, but it seems pretty good.
Overall, I’d get EVERY magazine electronically if they were 1) available and 2) not just a cheesy scanned-in PDF of the physical magazine.
Birds and Blooms. Lotsa photos and articles on, well, birds and gardens. They hide a picture of a bee somewhere in the magazine and searching for it is one of my guilty-pleasure timewasters.
National Geographic - only because my elderly mom wants to give it to us for Christmas every year.
Up until recently (I haven’t seen it showing up in a while) Mr. Sali got some outdoors magazine about hunting or fishing. The cover ALWAYS featured a rendering of a trout about to bite the hook. Or, a rendering of an upright snarling bear with the headline “I survived a bear attack!” Rowwwrrr! Grrr!
I used to get lots of magazines but little by little they either disappeared (Computer Gaming World) or I found I was not reading them and just letting them pile up (Time) until I am down to one magazine: Entertainment Weekly.
The Atlantic, The New Yorker, AARP (my wife’s subscription), Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, National Wildlife.
This Old House. I’m thinking of also subscribing to Family Handyman. Up until about a month ago my wife was getting Good Housekeeping as the result of a gift subscription from her mother. She didn’t really like it but didn’t have the heart to tell her mother, so she’s been getting it for the last three years. We’re thinking of subscribing to Cooking Light.
Mental Floss
Psychology Today
Cooks Illustrated - not sure this counts because I don’t get it in the mail. I have a web subscription, which gives me access to most articles & recipes since 1993, and I can just save the ones I want.
Food Network
Rachael Ray
Cook’s Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Entertainment Weekly
Slot Player
Casino Player
Mother Earth News
Inland Empire
Westways
and probably a half-dozen more, off and on.
I just let Better Homes and Garden expire because it bored me to tears lately and I hate those damn cardboard page advertising thingies and they had a ton of them.
That leaves The Food Network Magazine, but I don’t plan to renew it either.
Currently none.
I used to be subscribed to Cinefex, but it has been years since they actually had an interesting article that didn’t just list lots of software, so gave up on that.
I did want to subscribe to HDRI3D but it mysteriously ended publication without notice.
I have subscribed to The Sporting News for as long as I can remember, however I will probably not renew. Although I do think it’s superior to SI, the quality has dipped quite a bit in recent years.
Outdoor Photographer
Digital Photography
All You (coupons!)
Entertainment Weekly
Time
Vanity Fair
British Hello
Sports Illustrated
My husband gets The Atlantic and I get Granta.
I always tell myself I’ll read The Atlantic, but I rarely do. I can barely keep up with Granta and its a quarterly.
Lots of fellow EW fans!
Entertainment Weekly
Vogue
Vanity Fair (just had an offer where it was cheaper to get a year of Vogue plus a year of VF for cheaper than just renewing Vogue – that was a no-brainer)
The Hollywood Reporter (EW offered a free sample subscription, which expired a year and a half ago, but they’re still sending it – I’ll cancel as soon as they send me a bill)
Better Homes and Gardens (though I agree about the number of cardboard inserts – it’s obscene)
Used to get Smithsonian, but let that lapse when I realized I never actually read them.
Cook’s Illustrated.
National Geographic
Cook’s illustrated
Southern Living
Georgia Gardening
The New Yorker