Tell us what magazines you read.

128 responses total.

I love to read magazines. Since I am editor for an electronics
trade magazine, I naturally read a lot of other electronics trade
magazines.  The ones I currently get include Electronics,
Electronics Design, EDN, EE Times, EMC Technology, Compliance
Engineering, RF & Microwaves, RF Design, IEEE Spectrum,
Workstation News, Network World, and a couple of others.  I also
get a couple of PC magazines, including PC Magazine, PC Week, and
I often read Home Office Computing at the library.
 
Before you all think I am a totally philistine, let me also point
out that I subscribe to a number of "normal" magazines, too.  I
get The Atlantic, Esquire, American Heritage, Bicycle Guide, and
CQ (an amateur radio magazine).  I used to subscribe to the Paris
Review, but I lapsed on that one.  I also frequently check out
business magazines, like Inc. and Forbes, and other assorted
stuff, like Michigan History and Whole Earth Review.

We get Reader's Digest, National Geographic and the NG Traveler as Christmas
gifts from my parents and grandmother.  I also read Gourmet, Bon Apetite,
Family Circle, Woman's Day, various other *women's* magazines if the cover
catches my eye, 2-3 SCA publications, QST and other Ham Radio mags that
STeve brings home, BYTE (when he gets it), Computer Shopper, any others that
I find lying around when I'm someplace and bored.  (I am one of those people
that will read the back/sides of a cereal box if there is nothing else
available at the moment.)

If anyone has the last issue (#22) of Film Threat, I'd like to look at/borrow/
buy it. I missed it.
I can't believe you don't read Bicycling, Dan! No biker should be without it.

        I read PC Week until I moved and they put me back on a waiting list, I
buy PC about half the time, various other computer mags at random, subscribe 
to Bicycling Plus Mountain Bike, Playboy, Analog, momentarily Byte, Velo News,
and The Sporting News, but no longer, buy a hellacious amount of random mags, 
USA Today's Baseball weekly, The Detroit New, The Free Press, the AA News
(though only half the time on the AA), The Observer...

        I have too damned much paper in my life.

At home, I get:
 
    Outside
    Underwater USA
    National Geographic
 
Years ago I used to get the Economist, which is my all time favorite
unmatchable by anyone else newsmagazine.  It became too expensive so
they lost me as a customer.
 
At work, I get:
 
    Frequent Flyer (an Official Airlines Guide publication)
    and two monthly industry magazines that most, if not all, of you
    would never have heard of.
 
I want to spend a few bytes letting you know about Outside.  The magazine
has 1st rate writers, fabulous photography, and covers everything that
people do "outside."  Hiking, backpacking, mountain climing, bike racing,
mountain biking, pan-am driving, rock climbing, marathon running, biatholon,
triathalon, scuba diving, boardsailing, laying on the beach, archeology,
biology, zoology...gads, the list is endless, eclectic, and very well done.
 
If you know writers, both David Quammen and Tim Cahill have regular columns.
Great stuff.

  I feel left out.  Now that my subscription to Scientific American has
expired, I don't get any magazines.

Every issue:
Folk Roots   (music from England)
Dirty Linen  (US folk-rock fanzine)
Washington Post Weekly Edition
 
Regularly, but I skip some issues:
Opera News, Opera Monthly
The New Republic
Newsweek
Consumers Reports
The Absolute Sound
Stereophile
 
Occasionally:
The Village Voice
Harper's
Option
CD Review
Sing Out
 
There's probably a few more I am forgetting.  I used to be just awful
about accumulating magazines, but I cut out most of them except for the 
music publications.
 
I also get a small but dwindling number of SF fanzines from old friends.

We subscribe to Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker.

Newsweek, The New Republic, Money, Gourmet, and PC Sources.

Ignoring the comic books and newspapers for the moment: Gourmet,
Food and Wine, Vegetarian Times, Chocolatier, Bon Appetit, Eating
Well, Playboy, the ABA Journal, the Michigan Bar Journal, PC Magazine,
PC Computing, Student Lawyer, the Wayne Law Review, the Harvard Journal
of Law and Public Policy Studies, Tournaments Illuminated, the Pale, 
and about a zillion other newsletter-type things; I also sometimes
buy, but do not subscribe to, Ms., East West, The Animals' Agenda,
Scientific American, Cooking Light, and Newsweek.  
  
(OK, I admit it, I'm a data geek.)

At home:  The New Yorker, Games Magazine
At work:  Communications of the ACM, Transactions on Programming
  Languages and Systems, Computing Reviews, Computing Surveys,
  IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, ACM Special Interest Group on
  Computer Science Education, ACM Special Interest Group in
  Programming Languages

Yankee
Berkshire
The Economist
Utne Reader
Parents
Readers Digest
New Yorker
Spy

Every issue of Scientific American, The Sciences, Newsweek, Armed Forces
Journal, Consumer Reports, Smithsonian, Private Pilot, IFR Refresher,
and Soaring.

Work:  Just about all Mac and PC computer mags

Home:  Time, Consumer Reports, Premiere, The Comic Buyers Guide, Fangoria
Gorezone, Filmfax and Film Threat.  Through some promotional gimmick, I've
been receiving issues of Esquire and "M", though I didn't order them.
Probably will start getting The Economist on a more regular basis.

Used to get Rolling Stone, but dropped it a few years ago and I don't
miss it.  Also got Entertainment Weekly for the first promo weeks and
didn't like that, either.

Ack! Film Threat!

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Oh, yeah, I guess I have a subscription (so to speak) to the Michigan Bar
Journal, too.

I read Spy whenever I find it, and the Village Voice when I'm in the mood
for that.

I used to get about a hundred twenty photo magazines.
And I guess I should count the catalogs from Bike Nashbar and Performance,
but only because I get about 5 per week.

Mother Jones
The Nation
Consumer Reports
At work:
Unix Review
The C Users Journal (a MUST, highly reccomended)

And assorted independent comics.

Subscribe to:
   World Monitor (the Christian Science Monitor monthly newsmag.)
   World Press Review
   The Washington Monthly

   Sierra

   Communications of the ACM (professional journal)
   Computing Surveys
   SigChi, SigSac, SigGraph, and other sig journals
   AAAI Journal (or whatever they call it now)
   Artificial Intelligence (off and on)

Buy and read occasionally:
   L'Express
   The Economist
   Foreign Affairs

   Outdoors
   Backpacker

   The New Yorker
   Scientific American
   American Scientist

   BYTE, PCMag, MacWorld, MacUser, MacTutor

Amiga World
.info
Starlog
Whole Earth Review
various others.

You can get triple A to STOP sending "Michigan Living"?  Boyoboy, that
would be great, especially since Ken and I get two copies every month.

I buy way too many magazines off the rack, really should get around to those
cheap-o subscription offers.

Anyway, I subscribe to:  Electronic Musician, MIX, Stereo Review, and The
  Intellectual Activist.
Regular newsstand pickups: Car & Driver, Automobile
Frequent newsstand puchases: Audio, EQ

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"Equine Quarterly"

EQ here refers to the common abbreviation for equalization, as in the 
correction of audio signals.  This particular magazine focuses on the
operation of "project studios", a fairly new idea where one facility
handles a complete job, from tracking to mixing, for a project fee instead
of hourly rental.  These are usually smaller facilities with less expensive
pieces of equipment than the big specialized rooms.  This works out well
for many modern artists who work primarily with synthesizers and don't
need large halls to record full bands, though they can easily book a few
hours elsewhere to track a big chorus or whatever.

The National Review
Mad

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I subscribe to:

National Geographic
Smithsonian
Utne reader
Working Woman
Cristian Science Monitor
Science Weekly
The Journal of Technical Communication
Publish
the PFC Newsletter


I often, but not always, pick up:

First for women
Parenting/Mothering

I think you should also subscribe to Full Disclosure.

Today I picked up...
        Whole Earth Review
        Starlog
        Practical Survival
        2600
        Writers Digest

2600?
Don't tell me...that can't be...no...

(from Eugene's magazine list, I'd say he's going to 
hang out in biosphere and write about it.)

I don't subscribe to anything.  

 re #31:  I'll tell you anyways, since you probably leapt to the wrong
conclusion..  I've gotten tired of people seeing a copy of 2600 lying
around my apartment and saying things like "Oh, I didn't know they still
published magazines about the Atari 2600".

 the magazine 2600 has nothing to do with the Atari VCS, it's predominantly
a phreaking/hacking magazine.  there're usually a couple articles of general
interest, though..  flip through it in the Commie Newscenter sometime..

 it comes out quarterly, last time I checked.

(phreaking?)

Nah, actually I knew that, I was just poking fun.

I thought the 2600 people got raided.

  Not that I know of..  Perhaps you're thinking of "Phrack"/Craig Neidorf
and Operation Sundevil a year or two ago?

Um, perhaps...

2600 is published by Emmanuel Goldstein (I think) and I've never heard
of them being seriously hassled by law enforcement.

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