Im a great consumer of the classic scandi multi pack niche info type
Theirs a niche magazine shop in Brighton I pop into sometimes and looks at ones like Sidetracked, they are great looking things on high quality paper and interesting content but can't bring myself to pay £10 a pop
Still subscribing to Private Eye, if that can count as a magazine!
fantasy bike per page
Used to do a similar thing with the Freeman's catalogue 🙂
Personally, I hate reading most things online, and while I do it, there just isn't the same the pleasure to be had in it as buying a magazine and perusing it over the course of, say, a week or so, before getting the next edition
Why?
If you have a reader app and a nice big tablet (such as the OP's Surface) what's the difference?
Think of all the carbon needlessly wasted for the benefit of nice 'feel'... And yes I know computers use a lot of resources, but you only need one and it can do a hundred jobs all together.
Yeah I do here, Singletrack ( Obs) and few of the other Bike mags depending on what's in them, I like STW for a proper feet up telly off read, the Other mags are good for a flick through while on the loo, the less intense articles are good for a quick five min read, update on a bit of kit. Ike etc! I find Spend too long looking at a screen to want to relax by looking at one.
If you have a reader app and a nice big tablet (such as the OP's Surface) what's the difference?
It seems to be well-established that using devices in the hour before bed makes it harder to get to sleep.
In contrast a book or magazine (no, not that sort of magazine) makes me feel all relaxed and ready to nod off.
Cancelled my subscription to Evo recently, not reading it often enough. It's a fantastic petrolhead magazine, the best IMHO (I've had subscriptions to most over the years, been an Evo subscriber for about 8 years)
Have subscriptions to T3 and Time Out (though given as presents), was on STW but changed that to online.
Then random stuff acquired as and when
Fancy another motorbike subscription, just because
Buy maybe 1 MTB magazine a year and within 5 minutes of flicking through the pages I always regret it. All very same-ey and offer nothing I can't read/see online.
Performance VW gets bought every month and VWt/VW Bus pretty regularly although those too offer nothing I can't see online. I don't know why but bike magazines just seem to be full of articles written by people who've been on creative writing courses (or want to). I can't be doing with that rubbish.
It's good to put the screen down at times that's the difference.
It's why i have paper books for reading pre bed.....
Nope, stopped buying mags a while ago. For the price of two mags I can get Readly and get all the mags I need including a lot off American mags. Reading on the ipad doesn't bother me and most also have back issues available.
But I still read actual books from time to time.
I used to buy magazines but haven't for years. Same as I almost never print anything off on the computer. Far more eco friendly to do it online.
Love to sit down with a magazine once in a while. Especially in the summer, sat out in the garden after a hard ride.
The sad fact is though that their importance is reduced these days with everything inside freely available on line and I would almost certainly have one or two subscriptions at least if it wasn't for that.
Bought myself a copy of Cyclist today, which is a decent mag. Sometimes pick up Cycling Weekly who are pretty good at keeping up with the latest stuff and have actually been around since the beginning of time itself. Cycling Plus is an occasional guilty pleasure, but to be honest it's rarely that pleasurable and full of the same product reviews year after year. Arrivee from Audax UK is a strangely quaint, but heart-warming experience.
Cranked and STW here, Dirt20 and Hurly Burly were great one offs, hopefully they become annual events. Graphotism is a mag I miss, but I only bought it occasionally so I suppose didn't help it. Web stuff great for upto date race info and advertorials, but crap for relaxing with. I too save a stockpile of mags for holiday, looking forward to reading Cranked at the end of a practice run of the mega outside the tent in allemont again this year.
Singletrack.
That's it. I browse through the trail running mags that the mrs buys to keep up to date with whatever she is on about and to suggest places for her to go race and for me to find a microbrewery (coniston was excellent).
I use screens all day and hate using a tablet when commuting, books on the train, Singletrack in the khazi
