I love magazines as much as I love books. I just can't get enough. I've been curious lately about how other book loves feel about them.

Are there magazines that you subscribe to or read regularly? Which ones?

Do you ever feel guilty about reading a magazine when you "should" be working on Mt. TBR?

I only subscribe to Canadian Living. I get a bridge magazine every month which I try to read. I have so many mags around here. Do I feel guilty reading them? NO

I also like about every mag out there :lol:

I'm not so much of a magazine lover. In the past, when I've subscribed to something, it generally ends up laying around the house, not getting read.

However....I do now subscribe to Bookmarks, and I love that one! I got a subscription a few months ago for my birthday. Previous to that, I was buying it regularly at the bookstore, and I never do that with any other magazine. I tend to devour most of it right after it arrives in my mailbox! :drool:

Yes I love magazines, I do feel like that take away from reading books that are on Mt. TBR. I stopped subscribing for years, and now I subscribe again. I am currently subscribed to Cosmo, Redbook, Women's Health, Simple Living. I can't stand paying newsstand prices. I would like to subscribe to people, but the price kills me.

I thought you were making a joke (LOL!), but then realized you were probably referring to the magazine People. :rofl:

I don't subscribe but I read Heat magazine every weeks without fail, and most weeks I read closer too. I used to read Marie Claire until they had fur on the fashion pages :erm: so I stopped - it was all ads anyway. I totally know it stops me reading real stuff but it's a guilty pleasure :)

I get a lot of magazines in the mail, but they are all free. There are always free magazine offers online.

I read about half of the ones I get and then I donate them all to the school for Art.

I love to read

Woman's Day
Family Circle
Family Fun
Parenting
TV Guide


We also get and the girls love to read

Art in America
and several home decorating magazines

No, no mags here. Not because I don't enjoy them, but I'd rather read books :)

I forgot I am subscribed to Marie Claire too. I do think that magazine has gone down hill. It used to address women's issues. That was the focus, now it's more about fashion.

I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly. I had subscribed to others, like Us, but cancelled them when I found they all pretty much carried the same pics and stories.

I love EW, and it's been the only consistent mag I keep up with. I've been subscribing since their first year, which was in the early 90's. I always renew when I get a renewal form in the mail, so I think my subscription currently expires in 2011. :grin:

And no, I never feel guilty about reading my mag over a book. I can page through a magazine while watching TV, where I can't read while the TV is on, and I also read mags during my lunch break at work. I usually can't concentrate on my book there, too much talking and activity going on.

I used to subscribe to Pages but I let it lapse. There weren't that many books in the mag that I wanted to make me feel like it was worth it. Now I just subscribe to Crochet Today which I like - its not full of doilies and kitschy stuff - there's always 1 or 2 things I would seriously consider making - - if only I crocheted faster...

Do tell :D :whistle:

My house is being taken over by unread magazines! The only one I still subscribe to ---and that's only because I can't figure out how to cancel it is Martha Stewart Living. Mr. Ramson has a gift subscription to Reader's Digest. I have a a gift subscription to St. Louis Homes (although I don't live in St. Louis) because my best friend is the art director for the magazine and I told her I wanted to see her work. My mother lived with us for about 8 months after she lost her house in hurricane Katrina. She moved out over 2 years ago yet her Family Circle Magazine continues to come to both my house and her condo every month. :shrug:

I had a 2 year subscription to Rachael Ray's magazine the vast majority of which are still unread even though I really love that magazine. I do feel guilty reading a magazine instead of making a dent in the TBR. I have bundled all the unread magazines into 3 shopping bags and am taking a few out at a time to read at work on lunch breaks etc. So far I've read 1.5 of the inital stack I brought about 3 moths ago so that plan isn't working too well. It doesn't help that the girl in the cubicle next to me comes in once a week with every celebrity magazine on the newstand. I don't read all of them but if there is a cover story about someone who interests me I will read it. I also wil pick up an occassional People or something like that if the cover story grabs me but that's usually one once or twice a year. I'd love to pick up my subscription to Rachael Ray and Cooking Light again but have told myself that I can't do it until all the unread magazines are finished and passed on or trashed.

I do like to cut out pictures from magazines to liven up some of my BC pacakages. I reuse alot of envelopes I will sometimes slap a magazine cut out over a hole with some packing tape and its as good as new or to decorate the big exchange boxes with something pertaining to the box.

Some of them go very fast and you have to get in right away. I will be more than happy to post them here if/when I come across them. I have not paid for a magazine supscription in years and I currently get--

Diet & Nutrition
Woman's Day
Metropolitan Home
Pink
Art in America
Watch
Parent & Child
Family Fun
TV Guide
Teen Vogue
Seventeen

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Spin
Experiece Life
Interview
PC Magazine
Sea Magazine

They have several more, but you will have to look through them.




There are other sites that offer subscirptions on a regular basis. I will pos them as I come across them.

:D

Thanks Wendy! :hug:
I did have Time Magazine at one time and I had gotten it free too. I can't remember what site offered it free.

I subscribe to Fantasy & Science Fiction. They publish short stories in magazine form 10 times a year. I review the stories on my blog.

Vegan Voice (yes, we have our own magazine - beware!) and New Internationalist are the only ones we get. I'd love to read Ms and/or Bitch magazine but can't get them (well, sometimes I can get a Ms on our yearly trip to Wellington).

I sometimes pick up Heat or OK! depending on who is one the cover :lol: I do feel guilty for reading a magazine instead of a book though.

I get W and read that a lot. I used to get Archeology and Writer's Digest, but just let those subscriptions lapse.

I get Interview and US Weekly through someone in my bookgroup and I pass along the US Weeklys to someone else in the group once I've read them.

Southern Living
Taste of Home
Cooking for 2
Real Simple

Hubbie gets: Metal Edge and Revolver

I think the only magazine we subscribe to is for my husband - National Geographic. I subscribe to Smithsonian about every 2 years, lol. I read a few at work - Publishers Weekly and Library Journal are usually for fun. The others, Journal of the Medical Library Association and a couple of osteopathic medical journals are not so fun.

Mental Floss
Mother Earth News
Audubon- free w/membership
Free Inquiry
Popular Science (for DS)
Utne- off and on


They stack up, then I read through them all at once. I don't feel any more guilty about them than I do about my Sunday NYTimes, which has been known to sit on the table for two weeks before I read it.

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I just started getting Curve mag. (it's a lesbian mag) I also get I think Better Homes and Gardens.. that one I got a free subscription to, and I just look at the pics and the recipies

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I only get one and it's Backyard Gardening. I read it from front to back when it comes and keeps them for reference.

National Geographic!
Oh, the world in a magazine. I luurve it!

I find magazines to be deliciously evil. Every now and again, my dad gets a notice that a few of his frequent flyer miles are expiring, they're never nearly enough to actually get a flight anywhere, but they send these offers where you can get free magazines for them. So believing that we should make the most out of every opportunity, we get about a zillion magazines every time this happens, half of which we're not even sure that we want. Mostly I read them when I'm watching TV, in between books, or when looking for an excuse to not read a book that I'm not especially enjoying - and yeah, I do feel a little guilty for reading them instead of my books, but it's like I've got two TBR piles one of books and one unbelievable mountain of magazines. As a family, we get (but I don't attempt to read quite all of these)...

The Economist
Time
Entertainment Weekly
New York
New Yorker
Atlantic Monthly
Elle
Glamour
Metropolitan Home
Elle Decor
Allure
W
Town and Country
Newsweek
Sports Illustrated
The Sporting News
Shape
Better Homes and Gardens
Country Living

and probably more. It's mind-numbing. :wacko: And glorious. :drool: It's rarely a "bad" mail day around here. If there's not a book in the mailbox, at the very least a sparkly new magazine that I'll never have enough time to read can usually be counted on to appear. I've suggested heating our house by burning the old ones that we're finished with, but the idea really hasn't caught on. :hmm:

I'm NOT a big magazine person...I hate the clutter...says the person with 600 books. The only magazines that I get are:
Cooks Illustrated (www.cooksillustrated.com)
Fine Cooking

I get just 2 magazines:

Eating Well (love it but the subscription is running out and it seems wasteful to renew since I don't cook for myself much and I'll be living alone again in a couple of month).

Ode (just subscribed but the 1 issue I've received was good



I save Eating Well for the recipes - they even put out a yearly index on the web so I can find things.

Occasionally, I buy something on a whim - a quilting or craft magazine, etc. I do a collaging activity with friends so I use stray magazines that are read to donate to the piles for cutting pictures from. No, I don't feel guilty about reading magazines - I figure that reading is for my pleasure and I should read what I enjoy!

(I forwarded the links for free magazines to the leader of my collaging group in case she wants to subscribe to get more materials - thanks!)

I'm not a big magazine person. I used to get The Vegetarian Times, but they changed the format and I didn't like it as well, and suddenly all the recipes were for edamame in orange sauce and really, you only need one of those, so I let my subscription lapse.

I did just try to subscribe to Interweave Knits, but it's starting to feel more like I made a donation.

I signed up, and a few weeks later they sent me a notice that they'd run out of mag's that could be used to fill subscriptions for the current issue so they weren't sending me one. They'd start my official subscription with the next issue.

Then a couple weeks ago when my first/second issue was supposed to arrive, they sent me the same notice again. Whassup with that?!! I'm not too impressed! Maybe I should try for Vogue Knitting instead. :rolleyes:

I sometimes read through my sister's Horse Illustrated.

Huh. I don't see any of these on anyone else's list. :giggle:

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I'm in the minority on this one, I can't stand magazines..... always considered them a huge waste of paper and a huge source of trash that ends up very quickly in the landfill....

I got hooked on People Style Watch last year. I LOVE IT! I've used it to expand my clothing horizons, lol. I also got a free subscription to Harper's Bazaar in November when I ordered a Christmas gift for my sister. I read it and when the new one comes in, I drop off the old one at the subway station.

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I occasionally subscribe to interesting magazines, and then never end up reading them. I just never get around to it. So I guess I have to say I don't like them as well. I'll usually scan through and look at pictures, or for interesting bits of info, but very very rarely, if ever, have I sat down and read a magazine cover to cover.

I got a sub to Archaeology Magazine from my cousin when she was selling them for school, and then I have a sub to Romantic times, which is good for new info, but I never sit down and read either one! lol!

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