What – if any – physical print media do you buy?

Prompted by the BOTHER thread! 🙂

In our house-hold we subscribe to:-

MotorSport Magazine

Horse and Hound

BHS Magazine (but that comes as part of the British Horse Society membership).

I buy Private Eye from the newsagent on town when I remember (I have phases of liking it so don’t subscribe).

And I buy a Saturday newspaper which gives me some weekend reading.

And all books I buy are physical.

…or do you get all your reading online?

I have bought two copies of ‘Cyclist’ magazine in the last year, both times I happened to find myself in WH Smiths in Newbury and it was the only thing that appealed, the kids were buying colourful pens and stuff so I treated myself to a 7-quid Glossy roadie mag, one of them currently sits on my desk at work just so people are aware I like bicycles… That is all.

I subscribe to Retro Gamer magazine, which is genuinely brilliant – it’s filled with lots of in-depth articles that have real care and attention paid to writing them, with loads of research and interviewees. I can’t think of any other ‘leisure’ magazines that have that amount of effort put in.

I also subscribe to one cycling magazine at any one time, for nostalgia’s sake really. Oscillate between Cycling Plus, MBUK and Cyclist.

disco pogo and electronic sound both electronic music mags funnily enough, that’s it, apart from a subscription to Byline Times for a mates 16yr old son

Guitarist magazine.

Occasionally Private Eye. Read the Guardian/Independent occasionally online through my library app, Borrowbox.

None – for decades I bought every one of a motorcycle magazine “bike” but stopped a decade or more ago.

Edit:  I used to buy private eye as well

I buy Private Eye when I can. Did have a subscription… but the new one always turned up before I’d finished reading the previous one! My problem, not theirs. Do still buy one offs of other mags as well: music, design, cycling, movies… all sorts… but nothing repeatedly/regularly. There’s mags and papers I read online as well (like this one)… to stop physical copies building up and taking up space… but much prefer a paper copy. An occasional physical FT or Guardian feels decadent… as like any paper I’ll only read half of it.

Not much besides books.

At Christmas I got a 6 month subscription to Private Eye, which will expire soon, but I’ve been quite enjoying it and might continue, as £3.50 a month seems pretty reasonable.

Can’t remember the last time I bought a print mag. Which is sad really – like I said in the other thread, I used to LIVE for them. Kerrang, MBUK, PC Format, Sky, Future Music, DJ, and a dozen more besides – I was in the newsagents every couple of days as a 16 year old

Singletrack.

I’d occasionally buy Cranked at the airport if I found it, and some times I’d buy Autosport, but Cranked no longer exists and Autosport has slowly over the years transformed itself to appeal to the red trouser wearing banker-niche that can afford a 2nd Carrera RS for the Goodwood weekend for the little lady.

None. Used to buy loads of magazines and a newspaper most days. Can’t remember the last time I bought one though, 8-10 years ago?

Private Eye. I had a subscription before I left the UK and I still have one. It takes a while to get to me, but it is something I value greatly.

None.

I look back fondly in my late teens/early twenties when cars were life and i would buy Max Power, Revs, Redline, fast Car & Performance GTI every month without fail!

Although we do get the odd ‘magazine’ through due to being members of things like the national trust and some wildfowl trust thing.

Every issue – Private Eye, New European, Observer.

Regularly but not every issue – Decanter, The Economist, New Statesman, Spectator, Guardian ( 2/3 times weekly), The Oldie.

Occasionally  – camera and photography magazines.

STW of course, and this:

Private Eye subscription.

Struggle to finish that in two weeks, so don’t need owt else.

Be good if Dirt was still about though.

disco pogo

That a reincarnation of Jockey Slut? That was a great mag.

Do books count? If so, books. That’s it.

Singletrack, Private Eye, The Sky at Night, Play (Playstation5 games mag), 2000AD and the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine.

Mrs B subscribes to a couple of home decoration mags, so there’s a fair few good reads dropping on the doormat each month.

Zero.

Last time I bought anything physical was probably 2019 before getting on the Eurostar at St Pancras.

Used to occasionally but the Economist of I saw a recent issue, but even that I’ve not bought for years.

None now. Sold most of my books (bit of life laundry) as they were just sitting on shelves unread and gathering dust. Got rid of all my CDs years ago. Use Kindle for books, Spotify for music, and don’t really bother with magazines.

Really miss Dirt as a magazine. Just cancelled my Gardeners World. Can get a bunch of mags for free in the foyer of the building where I work.

My wife buys the odd quiz magazine maybe once a month.
I used to buy all the bike mags, a couple of photography ones, a watch one or two and also to gadget mags, last mag I bought for myself was What car January three years ago.

My son buys books, and lots of them, from New year until the middle of April he bought over 80! he is an avid reader and likes to collect a whole series before reading the first one. Makes journeys home from uni interesting as they all have to come back with him. His room at home is just full of books.

That a reincarnation of Jockey Slut? That was a great mag.

Yep, and it has a few pages each month dedicated to reprints of jockey slut articles……..given the state I was in back in those days im amazed when I recognise articles from decades ago.

Private Eye, sometimes.

i newspaper a few times a week, and at weekends.

Big Issue weekly

Books

The i weekend paper is about it, and books although often just get given them by friends. Was a Rouleur mag subscriber until last year.

Sunday Times every week.

STW subscription.

Lots of books.

Idler. No pressure to read it when it turns up, and nice to dip into.

I did have a Private Eye sub til last year, but the state of the country it revealed just depressed me too much, so lalalala I stopped the sub. Had a New Scientist one too, somewhat nostalgic to leave lying around for the teenage boys…but they didn’t pick it up, so pow!

I buy books, although I do have a Kindle. I’m considering upgrading to a Paperwhite so I can read in bed without disturbing MrsSalmon, if that happens I might go back to getting more Kindle books.

I haven’t bought a print magazine or newspaper for years. It’s probably easily over a decade. I’m actually always a bit surprised to see racks full of them when I’m in WH Smith!

Cycling Weekly, though it’s getting harder to find the print version near me.

Sometimes Cyclist magazine if I’m going away on holiday or something.

All my books are print versions bought second hand from Amazon and then I just donate them to local charity shops when I’m finished.

I often think about reverting to print media for news rather than the apps on my phone- might give it a go, hoping it might make the news slightly less visceral/mentally daunting.

STW – there’s a magazine if you didn’t know

Cyclist

The local village magazine

As part of other memberships I get the Cycling UK and Audax UK magazines, and MrsMC gets Social Worker Monthly or whatever its called.

Zero.

That was a great mag too. Probably the funniest computer mag of it’s time IMO. I still remember the random contributions to the letters page of Ludwig Ledbury

Singletrack

I also pick up the Mispent Summers yearbooks and some of the odd things they publish.

Get the RSPB magazine as part of the membership too.

If books are included – lots and lots.

Simgletrack, some months read cover to cover other months not much at all ..

Had a sub for 12 months to Rouleur and stopped because it just didn’t engage me even though the TdF is a constant in life

Nothing else in the house

Classic Bike on subscription, will occasionally buy Bike if it looks interesting but I’m probably not their target market anymore.

Private Eye sub to support the journalism, more than anything. Quite often don’t read it.

That’s it for print.

Singletrack

PCPro

The Guardian/Observer

Byline Times

Wired

Mostly because I think it would be sad if they died and I can afford to support them.

Singletrack mag. I usually skim read it, and I do less and less of that each issue. Occasionally a motorcycle magazine to read on the ferry/plane if we are going on holiday. We get a few through memberships we have, Woodland Trust, a beekeeping mag etc. They rarely get read tbh.

Very occasionally I’ll pick up a Sunday paper, but usually wonder why I’ve bothered. I’m my youth I was an avid reader of magazines. I loved the smell, the feel, the latest wisdom on my hobby of the moment etc. It was the only way then to immerse yourself in whatever interested you. I’m just completely jaded with them now and CBA anymore.

I look to YouTube or forums for info on hobbies. YouTube because you can take a really deep dive on the exact thing you are interested in and forums because they are interactive in a way print obviously isn’t.

Magazines are too full of adverts and too expensive. Articles are too short and endlessly repetitive or desperately grasping for a new angle which is invariably piss poor. I buy them out of hope and nostalgia and am always disappointed. Truth be told, if it weren’t for the dwindling number of people they employ, I won’t be that sad when I no longer see a shelf of magazines in a shop.

I’m still an avid reader of books though. I can’t see that ever changing.

I subscribe to radio times – my folks always got it so I think it’s partly a nostalgia thing. The actual TV schedule aspect of it is redundant, but I like reading it, there’s often some pretty good features and get loads of hints about upcoming stuff on all the platforms that will be worth watching.

Singletrackworld

Singletrack on subscription.

Private eye occasionally

Haven’t bought a specialist magazine for years from a shop.

If I do buy books they tend to be from charidee shops.

We get a few through memberships we have, Woodland Trust, a beekeeping mag etc. They rarely get read tbh.

Ah yes, memberships, I’d forgotten about the Cycling UK magazine, whatever it’s called. I wish they wouldn’t produce it, I never read it.