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

Subscribe to:

Little White Lies

Empire

Crack

Just re-subbed to Singletrack after a break

Occasionally buy Sight & Sound

Love mags. Love the time reading, away from damn screens. Long may they continue to exist!

Books that are not available on kindle. The ft now and then

Love mags.

I’ve not heard them called that before.

Arf

Never bought a newspaper, I buy one magazine, Uncut, and very, very occasionally Mojo.

I subscribe to STW, but I never actually read the magazine, because I’m always reading other stuff on Flipboard, which gives me news updates on lots of different topics, including cycling.
Including one on belt drives for bikes, which was very interesting because I’m intending to get my Inbred 853 S/S out of the shed and start riding it, and it turns out there’s a beltdrive system that can be used with a regular frame, without having to modify the frame – something I doubt I’d have discovered otherwise.

Oh, and I buy books, hardcover ones from certain authors, many of which I’ve had signed, and many others I buy as ebooks, mostly on Apple Books, but some on Kindle and a few obscure books on a couple of other ereader apps.
I think my library is around 6-700 ebooks, quite a few of which came from a hookey Chinese site, intended to help with learning English…

The great majority are books I wouldn’t have bothered buying, but had an interest in checking out, like Robert Ludlum’s books. Still haven’t read any, but they aren’t taking up shelf space, so 🤷🏼

STW ❤

Occasionally MBR if I spot it in Tesco, generally only if it has something very interesting on the cover or a nice freebie (new socks this month 😉). I do read the whole thing though.

Don’t get much else. We’ve recently got a Kindle so most books come on that now but REAL books are printed.

I’ve had a subscription to The Railway magazine for quite a few years now (maybe ten?) – mainly because I cannot remember how I set it up to be able to cancel it….

Buy? Nothing, havent for years.

Would rather have everything on the ipad.

Books I can read in white-on-black, and don’t need a light to read in bed.

Magazines, articles etc much easier to have electronically.

Happy to pay for things (like stw digital subscription; virtual books) and also happy to tolerate ads for free stuff. Wouldn’t be happy with a large chunk of my payment going to the needless physical production, storage and shipping of the product, plus destruction of excess stock and so on – I want my money to go to the content creators, ie the author, editor, photographer.

Do football programmes count? If so, football programmes 😄

I’m reading Bob Mortimers biography at the moment. It’s very good

Reading that made me love Bob even more.

Do football programmes count? If so, football programmes 😄

Club dependent Jase 😀

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.