For me its;
Singletrack - flick through when it arrives; tend to read the articles about going places / doing things. Ignore the reviews, adverts, tech etc
Sidetracked - Read cover to cover.
Books - got a kindle where I read library books, but most of my reading is on actual paper books.
Singletrack and Cyclist on subscription.
Camping & Motorhome club magazine by default, usually goes straight in the bin without being opened but there doesn't seem to be a way of opting out.
No newspapers anymore, I do have a readly subscription though and access lots of stuff on there.
Sunday Times - supporting proper journalism and an insight into the past week's political machinations. Nice to have a weekly staple.
Occasional magazine on cycling and Pilot for Son2.
I also read the online FT and subscribe online to Sunday Times via Apple for more instant gratifications.
Singletrack on subscription, and the odd book on occasion though 95% of my reading is on Kindle these days. I did also have a Cyclist subscription but I've let that lapse because, although I do like the magazine, I didn't feel it was adding sufficiently to justify the ongoing cost.
Books. Books don't run out of batteries, or have to be turned off for take off.
Mags? Subscribe to Automobilsport and Hayburner. I'll pick up Evo, Octane, and Viz when I'm over the water, or ask visitors to bring them. Used to love VolksWorld, Custom Car, and Classic Porsche, but they all got bought by Kelsey Media and absolutely nosedived in quality...
Wait, MBR's still going? I thought it died years back
None. Last paper book I got was Paul Kirtley’s excellent Wilderness Axe Skills. Maybe that was 2021 or early 2022. Other than that not purchased anything in years.
Just
Subscriptions to the following:
Singletrack
EVO
And the Beano 😀
That last one's for the kids, honest.
Olive, Empire, RAeS Journal, AIAA Aerospace America, STW...I think that's it.
Singletrack and MBUK, breakfast is not the same without them. Much prefer STW but it doesn't last enough breakfasts so I used to choose between MBR and MBUK. MBR folded and MBUK got harder and harder to find so I subscribe now
The Times daily, the Telegraph on Saturday, Private Eye, and I subscribe to Sheffield's online Tribune.
Read the Guardian and New Statesman for decades until they went all anti-Corbyn so went over to the 'honest right'.
However, I'm getting sick of the politics of the mass media and thinking of giving it all up (haven't watched the telly for 30 years) but I do like the puzzles. Decisions, decisions.
Occasionally buy Play magazine and used to buy Adventure Bike but don't often see it in the shops anymore. Nothing else really.
Nothing in print, keep meaning to fling a few quid to the Guardian every month as I read a lot of their online articles whilst wringing my hands and that.
Also resubbed to STW print when the 502 appeal came out, not seen a magazine drop through the letterbox yet though. When's the next one out?
MBR has closed, sadly.
Guardian gets a tenner a month from me and I keep considering a private eye sub.
MBUK might be thinner these days but I've read it since I was 12 and I'll keep reading it until it disappears. Changed a lot over the years!
Speaking of print media, my copy of ‘Bother’, by someone called HebTroCo turned up earlier today, and a fine publication it is too! 👍🏼
Another for the Private Eye club. I get it for the ‘you heard it here first’ and campaigning journalism - the Post Offive scandal was outlined years before Mr Vates vs the Post Office. Interesting that so many others get it!
I live in France so tend not to buy magazines in shops because my French is slow and I’m impatient. In German bookshops there are walls of them and I’m sometimes tempted by eco house build mags or a mtb mag to compare with STW (they turn out to be mainly numbers). Otherwise I buy books and get news digitally. I’ve switched to Foreign Affairs and Wired on digital. But have to remember to read them.
Nothing for over 20yrs probably. Last time was probably at an airport. Now though it’s easy to watch films/tv etc on a flight
Mags were good when the internet didn’t exist as they were the only source of information. Now they are just outdated
Mrs FD still buys the occasional book but predominantly everything on her Kindle
@davosaurusrex it goes in the post on 5th June! Anyone wanting to have their name on that posting list has until 9am today to sign up, or put in a pre order for a single copy.
Weekend FT
Fortean Times
.....and when i get the urge....good ole Viz!
STW, Saturday Guardian and occasionally Private Eye, Mrs buys a Puzzle Book occasionally and we both buy more books than we should in addition to an Audible subscription for her (I don't get on with things in my ears....)
What – if any – physical print media do you buy?
Pretty much zero nowadays.
I might buy STW, MBR, Private Eye or something similar if I had a train/plane journey to do - but train/plane is max three times a year for me.
I lose track - are we meant to be saving the planet by not using paper or saving independent media outlets? That's a genuine, if slightly provocative, question. 🙂
Someone should tell Private Eye that they have an infestation of mountain bikers in their subs list.
