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Ashley
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May 31, 2013 11:12PM
I feel like magazines may be a dying media, am I alone in thinking this? Does anyone here get a monthly magazine subscription still? What is it? Do you actually read it or does it lay around until it gets shuffled in with a stack of papers and forgotten about?
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Also I love Nat Geo - I am a tactile person so I like actually holding something. I do have an iPad with a lot of books on them but I still prefer printed books.
I used to subscribe, now I'll rent them from the library. I find they really inundate the reader with ads, I realize they need them for revenue but some magazines are really over the top. I enjoy any cooking magazines, as well as magazines like The Walrus (The Sun is the American equivalent I would say which is also good!)
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I may eventually be persuaded to pick up a magazine one day, but I've yet to buy one as of yet.
Fun story, about a year ago, I started getting Cat Fancy magazine, and I have no idea who is sending it to me. I thought maybe it was a trial thing for a few months that I accidentally signed up for, but one year later, still coming. I even started getting notices that my subscription was almost up, but that stopped and the magazines continue...
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Haha I know! I mean, I have two cats, and I am sort of a crazy cat lady........ and I do read the magazines.... but still :P
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@Jennifer, do you actually read Cat Fancy? Do you enjoy your subscription. Do you find it any different from any articles online? xD HA.
I actually won a subscription not too long ago for Elle Canada. Lovely. I don't even read magazines and here I am winning it. Then along with that, surprise another magazine subscription won for Canadian Living. I found that magazine a bit more useful that I peaked in but only for the recipes. Yet I feel like I can look those up.
I believe that printed magazines will be around for awhile longer but I feel an expiration date coming on.
Annie, I do usually read it, but if it didn't magically show up, I would never subscribe. The internet is full of cats, after all...
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Megan; I agree! Sometimes you just want the real deal in your hands.... We spend enough time looking at screens as it is! It's nice to take a break once in awhile. I forgot to mention I LoVE National Geographic... And a digital copy of that would just not compare.
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I still have loads of the magazines that I have moved with me from place to place...and it is fun to see how much the world has changed with the maps. Almost scary in fact! And the photography is amazing. I love to read the articles on both the marine life and the activities of the brain.
I will always love actual magazines. I go for a monthly iv infusion for my MS and having a magazine or two to read while I am there helps to pass the time. An iPad ore reader would just not be the same.
Megan you bring up a good point! National geographics, and all magazine for that matter, are great for collages, scrap booking and school projects! I have the Nat Geo from 1969 detailing the moon walk- it's great to flip through! And looking at the old ads are fun too.
