I miss magazines SO much! I used to relish getting InStyle in the mail and delving in with a glass of wine on a Sunday afternoon. I wanted to treat myself to a big magazine before a flight last month, and I was so dismayed by the lack of options at the airport. :( I still get (and deeply cherish) the New Yorker, and I get HGTV and Better Homes and Gardens, too, just for the print experience. They're so much slimmer than magazines used to be, but they're better than nothing. I really can't bear to read everything on a screen (still get a print newspaper on the weekends, too).
I need to start going to my library to read the magazines they have (sorry, I'm a physical product gal--I can't get used to reading everything on a screen). The only magazines I get are the AARP ones that come with my membership and Smithsonian. Sometimes I subscribe to Reader's Digest. However, I have instilled in my 12-year-old grandson a love of magazines. From the time he was tiny, I gave him subscriptions for birthday and Christmas--first Highlights and Ranger Rick Jr. Now, he still wants Ranger Rick but we dropped Highlights and added Oyla, a science-themed magazine for older kids. He reads every article, and loves getting something of his own in the mail.
I miss them so much that yours was the first email I opened & read today. (How could I not click on the subject line that said "Magazines!"?) Of course, I also used to make money writing for magazines, and I miss that tremendously. I also miss the fact that magazines allowed more space to cover topics & stories, that they were fact-checked. And magazines are simpler easy to take in the tub. Plus, they END (unlike endless scrolling)
I absolutely miss magazines! At various points I must have subscribed to all the biggies, and if I didn't, my mother did, and we would trade them when we saw each other. She used to 'have a guy' in NY that she must have met at a trade show that we got cheap (er) subscriptions through. I now get them through Magazines.com or Blue Dolphin (is that still around?) but they've also lost something in the age where we can see runway shows online and comment immediately.
I also tried to get my kids into the magazine habit, my daughter had American Girl and they shared Zoobooks, but nothing caught their interest past that.
I miss magazines SO much! I used to relish getting InStyle in the mail and delving in with a glass of wine on a Sunday afternoon. I wanted to treat myself to a big magazine before a flight last month, and I was so dismayed by the lack of options at the airport. :( I still get (and deeply cherish) the New Yorker, and I get HGTV and Better Homes and Gardens, too, just for the print experience. They're so much slimmer than magazines used to be, but they're better than nothing. I really can't bear to read everything on a screen (still get a print newspaper on the weekends, too).
I need to start going to my library to read the magazines they have (sorry, I'm a physical product gal--I can't get used to reading everything on a screen). The only magazines I get are the AARP ones that come with my membership and Smithsonian. Sometimes I subscribe to Reader's Digest. However, I have instilled in my 12-year-old grandson a love of magazines. From the time he was tiny, I gave him subscriptions for birthday and Christmas--first Highlights and Ranger Rick Jr. Now, he still wants Ranger Rick but we dropped Highlights and added Oyla, a science-themed magazine for older kids. He reads every article, and loves getting something of his own in the mail.
I miss them so much that yours was the first email I opened & read today. (How could I not click on the subject line that said "Magazines!"?) Of course, I also used to make money writing for magazines, and I miss that tremendously. I also miss the fact that magazines allowed more space to cover topics & stories, that they were fact-checked. And magazines are simpler easy to take in the tub. Plus, they END (unlike endless scrolling)
We miss magazines, too!
I absolutely miss magazines! At various points I must have subscribed to all the biggies, and if I didn't, my mother did, and we would trade them when we saw each other. She used to 'have a guy' in NY that she must have met at a trade show that we got cheap (er) subscriptions through. I now get them through Magazines.com or Blue Dolphin (is that still around?) but they've also lost something in the age where we can see runway shows online and comment immediately.
I also tried to get my kids into the magazine habit, my daughter had American Girl and they shared Zoobooks, but nothing caught their interest past that.