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#1 2005-10-07 11:20 pm

LKS_Rocky
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Magazines

The only magazine I read on a regular basis is Car and Driver, and ocasionally flip through my parents magazines, like The Nation.  Periodicly I buy british or Austrialian car magazines too.  Recently I started looking around to see if there were any other cool magazines and was pretty disapointed.  It looked like most car and "lifestyle" magazines were all owned by the same companies and put out the same psuedo edgy material.  Are there any good magazines left or has it all been watered down?




What magazines do you subscribe to or buy?

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#2 2005-10-07 11:24 pm

justine
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Re: Magazines

I subscribe to MacAddict. Was getting Macworld, too, but i let my subscription lapse. I pick up a People occasionally, when something catches my eye.

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#3 2005-10-08 12:18 am

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Re: Magazines

I'm subscribing to Beautiful British Columbia magazine.

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#4 2005-10-08 1:01 am

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Re: Magazines

MacAddict
MacWorld
Time
Rolling Stone
Foreign Affairs

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#5 2005-10-08 1:11 am

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Re: Magazines

Mac Addict
Car and Driver
Electronic Gaming Monthly
and for some reason I still get Boy's Life even though I dropped the subscription 3 years ago.  shrug

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#6 2005-10-08 2:25 am

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Re: Magazines

For a car magazine, get Top Gear. Published by the BBC.

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#7 2005-10-08 2:42 am

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Re: Magazines

I like Wired.
And when I go to Canada I buy Harpers (not Bazaar, just plain Harpers).
Sometimes The Economist if my wife brings it home.

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#8 2005-10-08 2:45 am

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Re: Magazines

Use to get MacAddict, EGM, SI. Nothing now.

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#9 2005-10-08 7:22 am

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Re: Magazines

I get (in order of importance):
US News and World Report
Sport Diver
Diver Training
Alternative Press (good music mag)
Punk Planet (not subscription, but usually buy at store.  great music and literature mag)

I am thinking of subscribing to The New Yorker and Popular Mechanics.

Edit:  Oh yeah, just subscribed to MacAddict two months ago.

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#10 2005-10-08 10:29 am

jondaris
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Re: Magazines

The Nation
The Atlantic
Wired
Utne Reader

Sometimes others. I read them on the treadmill, so I go through quite a few in the course of a month.

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#11 2005-10-08 10:48 am

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Re: Magazines

Pop Sci
Backpacker
Stuff
Transworld Skate
EW

Nobody else get's Popular Science? Sheesh. And I thought we were all nerds.

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#12 2005-10-08 10:52 am

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Re: Magazines

National Geographic
Popular Mechanics
Car & Driver
Reader's Digest (gift)
POB (free surveying trade journal)
Professional Surveyor (another free trade journal)

I usually subscribe to any magazine that sounds interesting and gives me a really low rate. For instance, I recently started getting Card & Driver for $5/year. I've just let my MacWorld subscription lapse because they wouldn't do any better than $19/year and I was loosing interest in the mag anyway.

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#13 2005-10-08 11:18 am

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Re: Magazines

pottymouth wrote:

Pop Sci
Backpacker
Stuff
Transworld Skate
EW

Nobody else get's Popular Science? Sheesh. And I thought we were all nerds.

You gotta help me her.  I used to hsve a sub to a skaate mag in the 80's.  It was????  Thrasher????

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#14 2005-10-08 12:38 pm

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Re: Magazines

Totally. They're still around too.
http://www.thrashermagazine.com/

Just trying to keep myself young.

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#15 2005-10-08 12:41 pm

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Re: Magazines

MacAddict
Macworld
and soon Wired
and a big Boooooo!!! to every one who does not read MacAddict!

W

Last edited by Short Circuit (2005-10-08 12:43 pm)

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#16 2005-10-08 1:06 pm

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Re: Magazines

Ha, it's funny how few people actually subscribe to MacAddict...  big_smile

I get Popsci, and I'm thinking of subscribing to Discover or New Scientist...

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#17 2005-10-08 1:13 pm

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Re: Magazines

National Geographic
Wired
MacAddict
HOW
Computer Graphics World

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#18 2005-10-08 1:26 pm

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Re: Magazines

I pick up iCreate fairly regularly.  Also, *cough* L'Uomo Vogue.  Otherwise I subscribe to Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.

http://smurf.com/

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#19 2005-10-08 1:28 pm

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Re: Magazines

I used to get The Economist, but It's so meaty and it just kept piling up becuase I didn't have enough time.

Dwell
Diver Training
Nat. Geo Adventurer

Plus whatever else I can snag from work.

When I win the lottery, I'm going to start my own magazine and run it full time.

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#20 2005-10-08 1:37 pm

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Re: Magazines

national geographic
espn the magazine
playboy
wired
rolling stone

Last edited by LukeLucas (2005-10-08 1:38 pm)

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#21 2005-10-08 5:42 pm

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Re: Magazines

with MacWorld in particular...
all of their content is online...
right when the new issue is released!

what am i flippin' payin' for here?

i don't like it.
not one bit.

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#22 2005-10-08 6:05 pm

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Re: Magazines

The one I had the longest was Popular Mechanics. Popular Science is for dweebs. big_smile

I don't subscribe to anything now - no money. Discover looks cool, though.

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#23 2005-10-08 6:13 pm

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Re: Magazines

I can't believe no one here reads TIME.
I used to subscribe to Reader's Digest a long time ago.
I just let my MacAddict subscription slip this month.

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#24 2005-10-08 6:33 pm

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Re: Magazines

i have subscriptions to Air and Space Smithsonian (charter suscriber, actually. and i have all my back issues), and Jaguar Journal (magazine of the JCNA)
my mother has a subscription to Macworld, and passes them to me.
my great aunt has a subscription to Vision (Cadillac owner's magazine), and passes them to me.

magazines i buy regularly (almost every month):
Car (best car mag in publication. PC was better, but Car is damn good.)
EVO

magazines i buy occasionally (no more than every other month):
Octane
Top Gear
Land Rover World
Thoroughbred & Classic Cars
Classic & Sportscar
F1
F1 Magazine
Jaguar
Grassroots Motorsports

damn, i'm a gearhead.

the only Mac magazines i ever really enjoyed were MacFormat and MacLeak (oops, sorry, MacWeek wink) - but i don't buy MacFormat anymore, and MacWeek is dead and gone...

Hoc futui quam lude militorum....

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#25 2005-10-08 7:29 pm

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Re: Magazines

Physics Today

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