To wonder whether you still read magazines?

[Burntmybiscuits]

I was just watching a film that heavily features magazines (particularly women's magazines, think Cosmo/Glamour), and realised I haven't read anything other than Radio Times and a food mag in years! I wonder how they still keep going with the changing market and abundance of stuff one can access online these days. Do you still read magazines? Which ones do you like?

I buy knitting magazines online additions. A few times a year I buy a sewing one if the pattern catches my eye..

I only buy magazines when I go on holiday now. The price of the glossies makes my blood pressure soar as they are mostly adverts.

I miss magazines. I used to buy loads as a teenager and spend hours reading them. They don't seem the same nowadays. They all seem to be just reality TV 'celebrities'

I used to love the photo stories, the interviews with pop stars, the fashion pages (featuring clothes from high st. stores, not just designer), the make overs, the problem pages.

The only print ones I subscribe to are Yours, which is for my mother, and Which?
I used to buy one or two but now I use the Readly app and find all the ones I read are now online.

I buy bbc history as if I leave on table the teenage DC will have a peak.

I use to buy so many as a teen but that was before then internet is what it is now, I use to travel a lot to and from school, and I think at that age your looking for what you should be, do and look like which is what a lot of these mags offered.

I then started Uni and decided that I was intelligent (lol) and read The Economist every week cover to cover for about 5 years. This covered my commute perfectly and did make me much more knowledgable and good at conversation. It also lead to me buying my own home at 22 even though I was only on 19k. But it also made me a bit ‘people have the right to borrow money at whatever rate they want’ yawn!

Now I don’t tend to buy many often but I find the following food reads: Private Eye, New Scientist, National Geographic, The New Yorker

I buy magazines for my dc, usually about Minecraft and art.

Occasionally I buy Amatuer Photographer magazine but that's about it. I used to read Take That or That's Life etc but their stories were so formulaic, repetitive and frankly unbelievable that I got bored and stopped buying them years ago.

I subscribe to magazines! I love them! Wunderlust, Homes and Gardens, House and Gardens and Red. Vogue for my DD as a present. I buy Country Life too about twice a month and I like Conde Nast Traveller. I don’t really care about ads vs editorial. As long as the editorial is good. Conde Nast have just done really good prices for subscriptions so that’s why I got Vogue for DD. The price of the current edition is £2. Money well spent.

I read Private Eye regularly and occasionally buy a copy of New Scientist or Horse & Hound to read on the train/plane. DP reads car magazines and I will sometimes read those, too.

I don’t read those ghastly celebrity magazines as the content just doesn’t interest me. I hate the fact that such vacuous dross is produced, written, edited, bought and consumed almost exclusively by women. They are an embarrassment to our sex. Surely we should be better than that?

I loved magazines growing up and until maybe three years ago always had the latest copy of Heat or Closer or both.

Then that dwindled to long car or train journeys and then only picking them up at the airport. DH pointed out to me there was absolutely zero point in reading them any more as between MN, Twitter, Facebook and the DM sidebar of shame the gossip was already out there and read a week before the mags came out.

Ds(4) has a national geographic kids subscription which he loves and he loves choosing a magazine at the supermarket (mainly for the tat on the front of course).

If I grab a magazine now it'll be a health one or Elle Decor. I just have no interest in reading about gossip and celeb misfortune any more

I was a magazine junkie for years. I loved the 70s teenage magazines and graduated to Look Now, Company, Marie Claire etc. I no longer read any women's magazines, they don't speak to me at all. I'm still interested in fashion and style but the internet fills that gap.

I've always been a big music fan, so I also got Smash Hits, moving on to Sounds and NME every week back when they were still in print.

The only magazine I still buy faithfully every month is Record Collector. It's kinda niche but has great columnists, interviews and articles on rare records. I've had to order the past couple of issues online due to lockdown, and might finally get a subscription set up.

I have a subscription to Gardeners world. I’ll read my mums Countryfile magazine when I visit and Farmers Weekly occasionally.
I haven’t bought a glossy magazine in decades . They’re full of pics of beautiful airbrushed models wearing incredibly expensive clothes . I’m middle aged , I don’t need to look at models to feel even more old and wrinkly .

We buy National Geographic too . I buy magazines I can file away to read again .

I love the covers of The New Yorker and Time but read them online

I read the economist, Time, New Scientist et al. I prefer reading things in print and newspapers have become so utterly crap that I’m loathe to read them. I occasionally read journals as well (not exactly the same but I guess it’s a similar concept). If I were interested in celebrity gossip or low end fashion tips then I guess I’d buy the kinds of magazines you describe. I occasionally buy pretty artsy women’s magazines or magazines specific to my hobby as well.

No not anymore although I used to love them up until my early 20s. Now they are just full of adverts. Occasionally I will buy if there is a good freebie worth more than the magazine.