Do you subscribe to any publications?

[AngryScientist]

Currently I don't. I was a longtime subscriber to Outside magazine, and my subscription is up soon. I'm finding the mag. to have less and less good content lately, more advertisement and less than subtle product placement. how many "best gear" segments do i need??

I'm drawn to National Geographic magazine, and have purchased it from newsstands from time to time. Thoughts?

I kind of like getting something regularly though the mail that I actually like, instead of just bills and junkmail. I'm also going to be trying to take the train to work more often in the warmer months, so having something physical to read would be good.

what are your favorites?

[e-RICHIE]

The New Yorker
W
Town & Country
Robb Report
Departures (via the Amex thing)

get all the cycling zines comped.

[echelon_john]

new yorker
economist
this old house
peloton
conde nast traveler
architectural digest
outside
atlantic monthly
harpers
vanity fair

it's a wonder i ever leave the bathroom

[Hank Scorpio]

The Surfer's Journal is the best magazine I have found in the past few years. Exceptional photography, interesting story content and minimal ads. Only drawback is it is bi monthly.

[AngryScientist]

the new yorker!

how did i forget about them, i used to have a subscription through an NPR promotion a while back, I may pick them back up too.

Hank - forgive the stupid question, does bi-monthly mean twice a month, or every other month?

[e-RICHIE]

<cut> forgive the stupid question, does bi-monthly mean twice a month, or every other month?
Think about vehicles - a semi tractor trailer is half a truck.
So, semi-monthly is twice a month.
By extension, bi-monthly is every other month, and published in Northampton.

[CNY rider]

The top 3: Cooks Illustrated
Scientific American
National Geographic.
Make it 4: Bicycle Quarterly

[AngryScientist]

Think about vehicles - a semi tractor trailer is half a truck.
So, semi-monthly is twice a month.
By extension, bi-monthly is every other month, and published in Northampton.

got it :beer:

[1centaur]

Most cycling mags
Forbes
Rolling Stone (lifetime subs for $175 many years ago)
WSJ at work
People (yeah I know, who'd have thunk it, but we have to get our low brow pleasure somewhere)

If I had more time to read, I got a freebie to Men's Journal and found it consistently interesting. I read investment pitches all day at work and don't really want to read a hell of a lot more when I get home. I'm looking forward to reading more interesting stuff in retirement in a decade or two.

[oldpotatoe]

Currently I don't. I was a longtime subscriber to Outside magazine, and my subscription is up soon. I'm finding the mag. to have less and less good content lately, more advertisement and less than subtle product placement. how many "best gear" segments do i need??

I'm drawn to National Geographic magazine, and have purchased it from newsstands from time to time. Thoughts?

I kind of like getting something regularly though the mail that I actually like, instead of just bills and junkmail. I'm also going to be trying to take the train to work more often in the warmer months, so having something physical to read would be good.

what are your favorites?

Combat Aircraft Monthly
Air and Space
Roulleur
Velonews

[Nooch]

Think about vehicles - a semi tractor trailer is half a truck.
So, semi-monthly is twice a month.
By extension, bi-monthly is every other month, and published in Northampton.

Also, as such, if you receive a paycheck on the first and fifteenth (or 7th and 22nd), you get paid semi-monthly... every other week, bi-weekly. every other month, bi-monthly.

Sorry.. working in payroll, this comes up a lot!

Oh, but on point, I still get Bicycling because I paid $5 for the year subscription, and my cook's illustrated just ran out..

[sg8357]

Aviation Week & Space Technology
New York Review of Books
Bicycle Quarterly
New Yorker
The Bone Shaker & News Views (Veteran Cycle Club magazines)

I'd take the Economist too, but I'd have to retire to get enough
time to read it, best for air travelers.

[Bob Loblaw]

+1 for Nat Geo. Always good stuff.
Discover
Peloton
Bicycling (used to be awful, but getting better and better)
Used to enjoy Cycle World and Motorcyclist, but they keep rewriting the same 20 stories over and over.

BL

[sc53]

Stereophile
New Yorker
Bicycling (never subscribed, it just arrives every month!)

[gone]

Stereophile
The Absolute Sound

That's it. I used to get a bunch more but the advertising to content ratio got way out of whack. I just re-upped Stereophile but that's my last time. It just keeps getting thinner and thinner.

I'm hoping that more and more magazine publishers will start investing in digital format. It appears that lots of them just give you more or less raw PDF's from their print version with maybe a hyperlink or two. The format has a lot of potential to be really cool, it'd be neat if they started taking better advantage of it.

[jonnyBgood]

Let's see...

Dwell
Mac Life
Wired
Racer X (Motocross)
Pro Cycling
Transworld Snowboarding (I worked in the Snowboard Industry for 8 years as a Graphic Designer)
Powder

Since I went to school for Graphic Design I have always been a magazine freak. :D

[Fixed]

downbeat since 72
cheers

[dave thompson]

I'm pretty old-school. I really enjoy the experience of going to a bookstore to peruse and then buy whatever magazines that appeal to me.

[BobC]

Economist - amazing magazine

comes weekly & takes 5 hours to read every week.

[Joachim]

Smithsonian
Coastal Living (when on sale)
Newsweek (also only on sale)

[echelon_john]

the iPad app will read it to you!
(in a lovely RP British accent)

Economist - amazing magazine

comes weekly & takes 5 hours to read every week.

[FlashUNC]

Rouleur.

Easily the best cycling mag out there.

[zetroc]

WIRED
The Economist
Esquire
Peloton
Hi-Fructose

I stopped reading Outside for a couple of reasons: a) the mag was getting thinner, b) the writing went downhill, c) fewer interesting articles and d) too many blatant advertisements masquerading as "best gear" rankings. The same goes for several other magazines.

WIRED is one of the most consistently interesting magazines out there.

[akelman]

The Atlantic (won't re-up when my current subscription lapses)
The Economist
Harpers (won't re-up when my current subscription lapses)
The Nation (out of a sense of duty)
The New York Review of Books (expensive, but worth it, I think)
The New Yorker
The Times Literary Supplement (won't re-up when my current subscription lapses)
various professional journals that nobody, not even me, cares about

If only there were a magazine devoted to the cultivation and consumption of arugula, with occasional features on how to make the perfect latte, I'm sure I'd subscribe, yes.

[William]

I'm pretty old-school. I really enjoy the experience of going to a bookstore to peruse and then buy whatever magazines that appeal to me.

Dave, I thought you would at least have a subscription to 100% Tequila magazine. :confused:

http://tequilasource.com/referencebooks/pics/100-tequila-26_6081_r2.jpg




William

[William]

Right now, Nat Geo and Air & Space.





William

[54ny77]

Creative Knitting
Guns & Ammo
Modern Drunkard

[William]

Any recommendations for my new hobby?

http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2011/articles/features/images/582_almanac_14.jpg






William ;)

[Orrery]

NYTimes (online)
Cell (they recently stopped sending me my free subscription... oh well).
When I get around to it I like The Atlantic, will probably subscribe.

[tuxbailey]

IEEE Spectrum (Courtesy of my IEEE membership)
Bicycling (Courtesy of my Performance membership)
ESPN, some $3 a year deal.

And then I read whatever I run into online.

[sg8357]

No wonder Meivici sales tanked,

No readers of
Architectural Digest
Cigar Aficionado
Double Gun Journal
Jane's Defence Weekly.

[gavingould]

Rouleur
Peloton
Wired
Switchback (digital subscription, free gift from publishers of Peloton)

considering Privateer (Rouleur's MTB cousin) simply for collector value and beautiful content.
might get Car & Driver iPad digital sub, have always enjoyed their writing and wacky stuff.

[eippo1]

I switched to all online magazines:
Peloton
Roleur
Architecture Weekly

The only thing I buy in print anymore are comic books (although I have been dabbling in those on the ipad as well).

[ultratoad]

Rouleur.

Easily the best cycling mag out there.

Agreed....

[gasman]

Scientific American
Climbing
Rock and Ice
I bet nobody here subscribes to the last two.

[rwsaunders]

Fast Company
Peloton
Cycling Plus
Harvard Business Review
National Geographic
Variety of Commercial Design and Construction rags

The industry rags are all electronic: Peloton and HBR will be on my iPad shortly. I can't say so much for Nat Geo as there is something about having those photographs in print.

PS...try the Flipboard app for the iPad. Essentially thousands of articles from a slew of magazine publishers.

[Uncle Jam's Army]

Scientific American
Climbing
Rock and Ice
I bet nobody here subscribes to the last two.

I used to subscribe to R&I. Climbing is like Bicycling Mag. Had the whole collection of Alpinist. That mag was like Rouleur at first. Went down hill after new ownership bought it 2 years ago. Sold my 1-33 issues for $500.

Now subscribe to:

Allure
Guns & Ammo
Home & Garden
High Times
Parenting
GQ (Italian version)
The Economist

I'm versatile.

[TMB]

Journal of Corporate Recovery
Insol Journal
Canadian Cyclist
Rouleur
Peloton
Switchback
Privateer

[DonH]

Too many magazines here, but I love to read and look at pictures.

Nat'l Geographic
Parenting
Consumer Reports
Bike
Bicycling
MountainBikeAction
Velo
Dirtrag
RoadBikeAction
Dirt Rider
Trail Rider
Racer-X
MotocrossAction
TransworldMX

[gasman]

I used to subscribe to R&I. Climbing is like Bicycling Mag. Had the whole collection of Alpinist. That mag was like Rouleur at first. Went down hill after new ownership bought it 2 years ago. Sold my 1-33 issues for $500.



I don't think Climbing is that bad ( compared to Bicycling)but not as good as it used to be. I have a dozen older Alpinist but just bought them occasionally. Good stuff especially at the start.

Your list is versatile.

[Louis]

Re: The New Yorker

A few years ago I fell so far behind and the stack of unread magazines was so tall that I did not renew. I've been working on it and I think Obama was just elected. When I'm done I'll re-start the subscription.

I'm actually in about the same situation with Poetry, but I haven't been working that pile quite as aggressively. I usually read that before going to bed, but a while back I switched to another pile of books I have in the queue. (Yesterday I received Hitch-22 so I read a bit of that, which interrupted my reading Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind which in turn interrupted Infinite Jest...)

[dyerwolf]

New Yorker
Economist
Sunset
Utne reader
Rolling stone
Atlantic monthly

Some variation of these periodicals are read every day for the commute to back and forth to work. I mix it up accordingly.

[rounder]

Favorites:
Road & Track (over 30 years)
Velo News (over 20 years)

Others:
National Geographic
American Journal of Accountancy
Bicycling

[jlyon]

Plane and pilot though I don't fly.
Trailer Life never have had an RV.
Car and Driver
Road and Track
Texas Monthly
Budget Travel

I think I subscribed to them all from Tanga.com when they were the daily special of $4 per year. I figure for that price I can try out some new mags that might interest me.

[Viper]

www.theinternet.org

[rounder]

Viper with de Salvo?

[Grant McLean]

Monocle (sort of surprised i seem to be first to post this)
Apartamento (not surprised nobody posted this one)
Rouleur (no surprise this has already been posted)

[ORMojo]

Current Subscriptions:
Utne Reader (25 years)
tricycle
Sierra
Boston Review
(my wife's subscription to) Brain, Child
High Country News
New Yorker (43 years)
The Economist (32 years)
Sunset - good source for recipes and road trips on the left coast
Architectural Digest
Bon Appétit

Most missed:
Gourmet - subscriber 1980-Oct. 2009. RIP

[eippo1]

I forgot to add some more subscriptions that add to my reading time in general:
The Paceline Forum
Velocipede Salon
Weight Weenies
Bikeforums.net - Road and C&V
Shacknews.com

The amount of reading found on these forums have largely replaced much of my magazine reading (and yes, I spend too much time on them).

[redir]

I won a subscription to Dirtrag magazine about 4 years ago and have stayed on ever since. I find it to be one of the best cycling mags around though of course it's quite specific to mountain and some cross.

That and American Lutherie.

[torquer]

All my subscriptions seem to come due for renewal about this time every year; this year we're in a bit of a pinch, so I took a harder look than usual before renewing:
New Yorker (actually renewed for two years, to take advantage of the lower rate)
AutoWeek (close call, but only acceptable porn in our house, so I kept it)
Velo- pulled the plug
New York Review of Books- this one hurt, but was the priciest of the bunch, and the last to get read

Freebies:
NYTimes magazine and book review ("free" with Sunday paper, but you get what you pay for)
The Construction Specifier- so good I would consider paying for it.
Alumni magazines- flame-fests in letters section at least as much fun as OT/politics threads here.