Do you still buy magazines?

[Mitsu3000gt]

Every single magazine I have seen in the last ~10 years or so is thinner than ever, and 50-75% advertisements. Also, by the time any magazine arrives in your mailbox, the information has been online for weeks if not longer.

When I was younger I subscribed to MAXIM and the ones I have seen recently, they are so thin they don't even have a spine anymore where they used to have space to print the issue number

I briefly dabbled in electronically delivered magazines via Zinio (Camera stuff, Home Theater mags, Car mags, Popular Mechanics, etc.) and while it was slightly better than print, it was the same story - every review or piece of news I read I had already seen weeks ago online and it was old news.

I also can't stand the journalism in car magazines these days, it seems to have been reduced to little more than a competition on who can think of the best quote to blow up and pull out of the print to describe a car. I also can't remember the last time anyone wrote anything negative or honest about a car in a magazine, they usually have 1 or 2 tiny nitpicks and the rest will be gushing.

[schocker]

I tend to buy bon appetit or fine cooking when I am at costco. Yet to make anything from them though.

[T-Dubbs]

car and driver
motor trend
european car


they are super cheap now.....

[schurchill39]

I don't subscribe to any anymore but if I am at Chapters/Indigo or about to go on a flight I always browse the magazines for something to read without having to dive into a full book. In the late summer early fall I will usually pick up a few different Field and Trial magazines to help get amped up for hunting. Otherwise its usually the Economist, or maybe a Popular Mechanics if they have something cool.

Back in the day I subscribed to Import Tuner, Concrete Powder, and would pick up most of the Thrasher issues. But after you read them you just had a stack of magazines worth nothing, and taking up space and it still took me a few years to finally get rid of them.

[heavyD]

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car and driver
motor trend
european car


they are super cheap now.....

Yeah. Subscribing to the C&D and R&T are no-brainers because you can get both as a package cheap. I'm not a person that likes to use their phone or ipad on the crapper so that's where I get a lot of magazine reading done.

[JRSC00LUDE]

Only for my AR-15.

[ercchry]

I usually grab a Robb Report every time I’m flying... but it getting harder and harder to justify. Usually one or two interesting articles... that are shorter and shorter... then a lot of ads. But at least it keeps me informed for my next private jet purchase

[SKR]

This sucks for me, I liked to buy a few of these a few times a year.

https://www.foliomag.com/ten-publish...int-magazines/

TEN Publishing will shutter 19 of its 22 automotive magazines by the end of the year, leaving MotorTrend, Hot Rod and Four Wheeler as the only three titles that will continue to be published in print in 2020.

Here’s a full list of discontinued titles:

4-Wheel & Off-Road
Automobile
Car Craft
Chevy High Performance
Classic Trucks 
Diesel Power
Hot Rod Deluxe 
Jp
Lowrider
Mopar Muscle
Muscle Car Review
Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords
Mustang Monthly
Street Rodder
Super Chevy 
Super Street
Truck Trend 
Truckin’
Vette

[SKR]

Sometimes when I'm done reading a magazine I'll throw it out right away, but lots of times I keep them to read again. I noticed recently they're really starting to stack up so I decided it's time to send some of them to the recycling bin. For fun (you'll really have to stretch your definition of "fun" here) I added up the cost of the magazines and the weight. It was 63.2 pounds, and $1164 worth.

Cool fuckin story.