Magazines

PostRe: Magazines by **speedboatchase** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:28 pm

I'm subscribed to Edge, Retro Gamer and the New Yorker. Occasionally buy Empire.

PostRe: Magazines by **Imrahil** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:35 pm

I religiously bought Your Sinclair, Amiga Power and PC Gamer. The best magazines in their fields at the time. Up until around 10 years ago.

When I was about 8 I remember reaching/climbing up to try and get a porn mag and the whole shelving system collapsed. Amazingly the shopkeeper didn't even complain, just walked over and started putting it all back up. He understood.

PostRe: Magazines by **Dowbocop** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:52 pm

Imrahil wrote:I religiously bought Your Sinclair, Amiga Power and PC Gamer. The best magazines in their fields at the time.

When I was about 8 I remember reaching/climbing up to try and get a porn mag and the whole shelving system collapsed. Amazingly the shopkeeper didn't even complain, just walked over and started putting it all back up. He understood.

You just wanted to try a bit of shelf abuse.

PostRe: Magazines by **rinks** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 2:21 pm

Excellent work, Dowbs.

PostRe: Magazines by **Knoyleo** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 3:50 pm

rinks wrote:Until recently I was a subscriber to The Week and Radio Times. For the former, I subbed to the print+digital package. The print edition was handy because I could pass it on to work colleagues and get more value out of it, and it didn’t cost much more to add the digital version.

Then, a series of events. Permanent working from home, so I was the only one reading the print edition. They put the price up by something ridiculous like 30%. And The Week got added to Readly.

Bonus 1: For less than the digital version of The Week alone, I could sub to Readly.

Bonus 2: Radio Times is in Readly, so I could cancel that sub too.

Bonus 3: For no extra cost I can now get every issue of magazines I’d occasionally buy: Retro Gamer, Edge, Bike, Guitar World, Metal Hammer, Viz, T3, Classic Rock.

Bonus 4: 5,000 other magazines I can freely browse.

Bonus 5: Authorised family sharing.

Bonus 6: £1 off each month by subbing via the Barclays app.

I’ve become a bit of a Readly advocate, but it really is absurd value.

Ffs rinks, I've just had a look and now I want to subscribe too.

PostRe: Magazines by **rinks** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:08 pm

Haha, it’s well worth a look. All those magazines for under a tenner a month. Usually 1/2/3-month free trials available too. Just be warned, if you are a Barclays customer, if you do a longer free trial direct from Readly, you can’t then sign up for the lower Barclays price (at least, that was the case when I joined).

If you’ve got the largest iPad, it’s even better. You can basically read a whole page in portrait without even having to zoom in.

PostRe: Magazines by **Robbo-92** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:25 pm

I only subscribe to one magazine, GP Racing (formerly F1 Racing), quite enjoy reading an article or two with my lunch over the course of a month.

PostRe: Magazines by **Vermilion** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:14 pm

I still have my issue 1 of F1 Racing (dated late 1995 or early 1996 i think) somewhere, I think it covered Schumi's first ferrari test when he drove the 1995 412 T2 car.

PostRe: Magazines by **Preezy** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:17 pm

Been a Retrogamer subscriber for a few years now. It's the only magazine I read, not bought any others in about a decade.

PostRe: Magazines by **OrangeRKN** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 9:08 pm

I'm subbed to New Scientist, which is weekly so I don't really find time to read much else

PostRe: Magazines by **Red** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 10:41 pm

I subscribe to Current Archaeology, have done so for maybe ten years. It's a good overview of British archaeology and feels decent value for under £5 an issue (if you subscribe).

PostRe: Magazines by **Oblomov Boblomov** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:22 am

At some point last year I was offered three months' free subscription to a Hearst magazine. The only one that vaguely interested me was Men's Health, so I went for that. It surprised me that I really enjoyed it, so when my subscription expired and they offered me 12 months for something like £25, I snapped it up :slol:

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I ignore the vast majority of the exercise and weightlifting suggestions/tutorials, as I've been researching and doing that for almost half my life now, and they try to come up with 'new, fresh' ways of carrying out functional movements that are usually less efficient and simply unnecessary.

It's the interviews and other research pieces they put together that I enjoy. They are surprisingly 'woke', clearly despise the government, have got Alistair Campbell as a regular guest editor, pro-trans, pro-wealth equality etc. There's always a copy in my bathroom cabinet and it makes poo time much more interesting.

PostRe: Magazines by **kazanova_Frankenstein** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:54 am

I don't buy any magazines any more (though I have been tempted by Edge). The last magazine I subscribed to was Retro Gamer, which I did for 24 months about 5 years ago. Good mag, not sure why I didn't renew a third time.

I still have a loft full of Your Sinclair magazines (which I actually took off a work colleague back in 2000 when he was going to throw them all away). I also have most of my original Commodore Format and Amiga Power mags. I also seem to have bought a hell of a lot of editions of GamesTM over they years - it was a quality mag.

I just can't bring myself to buy a digital magazine and there are so few print mags for gaming I have given up at this point.

Oh, I had a sub to Total Guitar for a couple of years also. It was written for 18 year olds, but I played guitar like a 10 year old so it kind of worked.

PostRe: Magazines by **Errkal** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:43 am

I sub to Private Eye, and the little'un has a sub to The Beano.

PostRe: Magazines by **Skarjo** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:13 am

Knoyleo wrote:
rinks wrote:Until recently I was a subscriber to The Week and Radio Times. For the former, I subbed to the print+digital package. The print edition was handy because I could pass it on to work colleagues and get more value out of it, and it didn’t cost much more to add the digital version.

Then, a series of events. Permanent working from home, so I was the only one reading the print edition. They put the price up by something ridiculous like 30%. And The Week got added to Readly.

Bonus 1: For less than the digital version of The Week alone, I could sub to Readly.

Bonus 2: Radio Times is in Readly, so I could cancel that sub too.

Bonus 3: For no extra cost I can now get every issue of magazines I’d occasionally buy: Retro Gamer, Edge, Bike, Guitar World, Metal Hammer, Viz, T3, Classic Rock.

Bonus 4: 5,000 other magazines I can freely browse.

Bonus 5: Authorised family sharing.

Bonus 6: £1 off each month by subbing via the Barclays app.

I’ve become a bit of a Readly advocate, but it really is absurd value.

Ffs rinks, I've just had a look and now I want to subscribe too.

Holy gooseberry fool that's crazy value.

Signing up now.

PostRe: Magazines by **Buffalo** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:27 am

Never heard of them until now, thanks Rinks.

PostRe: Magazines by **kazanova_Frankenstein** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:58 pm

I'm going to look in to that now too!

PostRe: Magazines by **Knoyleo** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:07 pm

Rinks, what's your commission rate?

PostRe: Magazines by **rinks** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:20 pm

Haha, I really should get an affiliate link. Unfortunately there are no refer-a-friend bonuses that I know of.

PostRe: Magazines by **Drumstick** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:37 pm

I must say that it's mighty tempting.

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