# What (real life) magazines are you subscribed to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590 "2012-05-21T11:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/21 "2012-05-21T15:33:53Z")
Wired Cook’s Illustrated Shop Smart (from Consumer Reports) Man, I love magazines. I majored in journalism in college with a focus on magazine. I never did pursue it as a career tho. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/22 "2012-05-21T16:03:02Z")
National Geographic Alpinist Martha Stewart Living ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/23 "2012-05-21T16:13:20Z")
Runner’s World Sports Illustrated (though I bought it to support a friend’s daughter in a school fundraiser, and I’ll probably let it lapse) Guitar Player Rolling Stone Car and Driver My wife subscribes to: Cooking Light Cuisine at Home Archaeology ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/24 "2012-05-21T17:32:51Z")
New Yorker, for about 15 years now. ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/25 "2012-05-21T17:56:02Z")
Scientific American Smart Money Consumer’s Reports Point of Inquiry TV Guide The Atlantic Skeptic Seems like I subscribe to a lot more magazines than most… J. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/26 "2012-05-21T18:01:00Z")
My mom buys me _Consumer Reports_, _National Geographic_, _The Family Handyman_, and _Reader’s Digest_ every year for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/27 "2012-05-21T18:02:33Z")
My wife gets Birds & Blooms and Garden Gate. I get Men’s Health and Golf Digest. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/28 "2012-05-21T18:31:37Z")
Cook’s Illustrated Sports Illustrated Smithsonian ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/29 "2012-05-21T18:41:17Z")
National Geographic SA Botanical Society (Veld & Flora) White Dwarf, kind of (I get a copy kept at the newsagents for me, not posted to me) I used to do Time but they became too gung-ho pro-US-military for my taste I used to do Dragon but they started stinking. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/30 "2012-05-21T18:51:12Z")
New Yorker F&SF Analog Asimov’s Now the rest are magazines I get as a consequence of other things Computer, from being in the IEEE Computer Society IEEE Spectrum, from being in IEEE Technology Review, as a consequence of donating to MIT as an alum. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/31 "2012-05-21T18:51:20Z")
Sports Illustrated The Week Entertainment Weekly Wild Bird National Geographic Smithsonian Wine Enthusiast And a few that come with memberships to other things I suppose, like Costco Connections, Via (AAA), the Universtiy of Wisconsin Alumni Magazine ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/32 "2012-05-21T19:20:14Z")
Beadwork and Bead & Button. I used to get Step by Step Wire Jewelry because I won a subscription as a door prize, but I don’t really do wire work so I let it lapse. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/33 "2012-05-21T19:23:41Z")
The Economist Scientific American National Geographic New England Journal of Medicine (wife) ---
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The Atlantic This Smithsonian (gift some someone) Nat Geo. (gift from someone) One of those better homes and good housekeeping things (gift from MIL, no one reads it) Art in America Art News ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/35 "2012-05-21T19:28:03Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I always tell myself I’ll read The Atlantic, but I rarely do. I can barely keep up with Granta and its a quarterly. Don’t bother. I subscribed to The Atlantic for almost 30 years and just let it lapse this year. It ain’t what it used to be IMO. I get Esquire and Bee Culture My wife get Smithsonian. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/36 "2012-05-21T19:28:08Z")
At home: Threads (If I could find the time to read it I’d get Fine Woodworking from the same publishers as well. I really like all the Taunton Press mags: fascinating ideas and excellent technical detail.) At work: Mathematics Magazine Journal of the American Oriental Society ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/37 "2012-05-21T20:07:23Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I used to do Dragon but they started stinking. And then went to an online-only format in 2007 or 2008, when Wizards of the Coast ended Paizo’s license for the title (as well as Dungeon). I’m still technically a “subscriber” to both magazines, but they no longer fit the OP’s question. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/38 "2012-05-21T20:13:26Z")
Currently just \*New York \*magazine, the _New Yorker_’s less pretentious sibling. 🙂 I almost never read it, sadly. Oh! Also _Opera News_, which I got when I signed up for the Metropolitan Opera Guild. (Little did I know, I also effectively signed up for several dunning calls per week, asking for more money. I never answer them.) ---
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bon appetit Indistrial Engineering Make Scientific American ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/40 "2012-05-21T20:51:12Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Don’t bother. I subscribed to The Atlantic for almost 30 years and just let it lapse this year. It ain’t what it used to be IMO. Try Harper’s instead, IMHO. New York (some excellent national political reporting) The New Yorker Harper’s Tip: If you have some miles piled up from an airline and you’re pretty sure you’ll never use them on flights, you can often use them for a one year subscription to magazines. The publishers are so hard up for hard copy subscribers that a lot of them will just keep extending your subscription long after it first expires. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590.md?page=3)