Does anybody still read magazines?

I have always loved magazines, and especially car magazines. At one time I subscribed to about seven of them. Things are changing, though.

Now I keep hearing that print is dead, and there's a lot of evidence that is true. For an evening of car related entertainment, I find myself going on line and watching a Petrlolicious video or scrolling through one of the great build threads here on Pelican instead of pulling out a magazine. Yes, the writing and photo quality of online stuff is perhaps lower (though surprisingly, not always), but you can take in so much more information so much more easily and thoroughly, and, often, even real-time interactively.

And yet. I still buy magazines. So I'm curious and interested to hear what others here do, although the sample may be skewed by the fact that people here have some facility with computers and online communities, and that facility perhaps exceeds that of core magazine readerships. But even so, if you've bothered to read this far, I'd be interested in hearing.

[pwd72s]

I'm slowly letting my car magazine subscriptions expire.

[masraum]

I used to have several subscriptions, but I have let them all expire. My problem was that I wanted to keep all of the magazines. They add up to take up a lot of space and weigh a ton after a while. I eventually started subscribing online and reading on my iPad. I got to the point though where I didn't have as much free time to devote to the reading and eventually stopped. Now if I find myself in an airport or maybe a Barnes and Noble, I will often pick up a couple.

My favorites are Octane and Motorsport. Others that I have either subscribed to or frequently bought Road and Track, Evo, Excellence, Vintage Motorsport, when I was younger, HotRod and Car Craft and also some of the other Porsche specific magazines and a few other British Classic Car type magazines. The PCA magazine is much better these days too.

[drkshdw]

How do people poop without magazines?

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by drkshdw

How do people poop without magazines?

Exactly.

Seriously though. I still love magazines. Cars, boats, triathlon, woodwork, etc. I have never subscribed to magazines though. I like to go thumb through and buy what I like. Now I use them as internet research.

[john70t]

I still get Mother Earth News.
It is a rag about living and self-sustenance in nature.
Bereft of politics except perhaps for the various methods/products I suppose. Whatever.

Someday I will retire on 100,000 acres of prime farmland with freshwater lakes and ocean access in a place of always perfect weather and nothing changes except for the better.
There will be solar panels wind turbines gnome farts to power all pumps vehicles and equipment and houses.
Other completely honest and loyal peoples will live there and do all the work for me while increasing profit and purchasing adjoining plots to increase my fiefdom.
I will be addressed only as 'your majesty' with down-turned eyes by all, of course.
In the meantime I will travel every inch of the entire world on my own schedule and see everything.

But of course I will be 295+-years old when this becomes feasible and no longer able to wipe my own drool.

[rcooled]

I've whittled my magazine intake down to these two ↓

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But who the heck is reading all these 'lifestyle' magazines? Print media isn't cheap, so they're apparently able to attract advertisers but I can't see how they manage to survive beyond a few issues

[Scott Douglas]

I used to subscribe to a lot of them. Same problem as Steve, I'd save them. Wife started a campaign to rid me of the habit. I finally quit reading them when they all changed their ink to whatever it is that they use today. I almost instantly start sneezing and my nose runs as if I'm allergic to the print.
Happens with newspapers too so they don't last long around our house either. Now days it's a struggle to keep any printed matter around at all, 'cept for books.

[rwest]

I much prefer a magazine over online. I only subscribe to a couple now and the reason has to do with content that seems to just repeat itself every couple years, so I kind of outgrown a magazine and then just let the subscription expire.

[speeder]

I use to read a lot of magazines, now only on planes and doctor's waiting rooms.

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by drkshdw

How do people poop without magazines?

I'm one of those old farts that still needs magazines to poop, and have NEVER taken my phone in the bathroom for any reason (no mirror selfies either).

I still enjoy opening up the local newspaper, and reading what I choose. It does help that for 9 years, I actually operated the newspaper press printing 27,000 copies a night, along with the BGSU university paper (another 6000), so I have an appreciation for hard print.

[Eric at Pelican Parts]

I've let all my magazine subscriptions run out. I'll buy one here and there occasionally. Someone would occasionally steal my magazines from my mailbox and it frustrated the hell out of me. Once in a few months, someone steals my newspaper still.

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Eric at Pelican Parts

I've let all my magazine subscriptions run out. I'll buy one here and there occasionally.

Don't let Excellence see this quote?

[VincentVega]

I still do, too many actually. I bought a tablet planning to stop the print subscriptions but it didnt workout. Now I lay on the couch and surf on the tablet and still get the magazine subscriptions.

[HardDrive]

Art magazines, yes. And I still vastly prefer the feel of a paper book. I'm not remotely anti-technology, thats simply my preference.

[fanaudical]

I love magazines. I rarely buy any. I usually visit the library or my local barbershop to read them.

[p911dad]

I'm down to two, AOPA Pilot and the Hagerty magazine. I let the others all go. I was irritated when Autoweek went monthly or whatever it did.

[Danimal16]

Sunset.

[Norm K]

Magazines have, in Gentile homes anyway, been largely relegated to stocking-stuffer status.

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[A930Rocket]

Only at the doctors, dentist and barber shop. If then.