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Was wondering how many people here still get magazines of any kind?? How many get specific magazines linked to their hobbies? Have to say at one time I was a magazine hoarder and got just about every woodworking magazine out there. I also subscribed to every scrollsawing magazine. I did get a few years of Pen Turners magazine but I have since stopped all magazines and probably one reason was the cost. Saving lots of money there. Plus after awhile every woodworking magazine became nothing but ads and the tool reviews were basically the same. The Scrollsawing magazines became ads too and the patterns they included just were to simple and basic and I outgrew that. I also was a Popular Mechanics magazine guy.

Now with this said here is the next part of this question, what did you do with all magazines. I kept all and now have an attic full of all kinds and want to get rid of them but just do not want to throw away. Looking for an answer. Have my scrollsawing magazines on FB marketplace but no one wants them and the asking price is basically a give away price. The patterns alone in them are a great value. Have we as a society reall became allergic to paper products such as newspapers and magazines and the WWW has consumed our feeble minded brains?? Like to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
 
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I used to get quite a few woodworking magazines. I don't anymore but not because I don't like them. I bought digital versions of several that I used to subscribe to, some are flash drives and some are just internet access. It's pretty cool because I've got all of them goung back to #1. I want yo get some Turning magazines of some form but can't find any except the one from AAW. When I got the digital copies I gave my paper copies away, a neighbor wanted them.
 
Sad truth is that you can download almost any magazine now very easily on the internet. I don't want to get into a morals discussion - just stating a fact.
 
I probably have a few old ones around, but not many. I have a subscription to Family Handyman that I don't do much with, but it's less than $7/yr. The last one I really was interested in was Smithsonian, but it got to be that I wasn't keeping up with reading them. I know you typically get access to online libraries when you subscribe to magazines, but I do prefer paper, even more so with books.
 
I keep all my old shopnotes. They are pretty small and not filled with much advertising fluff so they fit well on a shelf. They make good reference materials.
 
I still subscribe to Popular Mechanics, although it's become less of a tool/build/repair magazine, and more about weird intergalactic stuff. I also subscribe to WOOD magazine, and Woodsmith. When I get done reading them I stuff them in a cabinet. When the cabinet gets full, I put an ad on craigslist and sell them, usually for about $1.00-1.50 per magazine. Sometimes it takes a while, but I eventually get rid of them.

I find it amusing that I pay something like $35 per year for 12 issues (so about $3 per), but the "Newsstand price" is $9. Who pays that?
 
Wood & Woodcraft are the only two I still get.

Use to be a magazine guy. Subscriptions of all kinds.

Probably won't renew when these come due.
 
The only magazines I get now are from memberships to organizations that send them out. I still have several woodworking magazines in a filing cabinet in the shop.

At one time I went through all of my woodworking magazines and pulled out the articles of interest and the drawings (remember the full size printed in the middle) to reduce the overall bulk and filed those.

My intent is to replace as many as possible with digital.
 
There are times when I am waxing nostalgic that I miss some of the old print magazines I used to get. Ahh those Byte, PC Computing, Radio Electronics, and Popular Electronics magazines. Also Popular Mechanics, Starlog, The American Woodworker, and Taste of Home. I still get American Rifleman in print, but that is about it. My parents got Reader's Digest, Look, and Life.

Probably signed up for most of them through Publisher's Clearing House, back when they had the stamps that you pasted on the order form and sent back in.

Alas, nearly all of them have gone to the landfill at one time or another - usually when moving.

Dave
 
I recently started turning bowls as well as pens. I joined the AAW. I get their magazine and find it inspirational. I still prefer to read real paper than electrons! I download the articles I am interested in saving and will probably donate the magazines to my local Makerspace.
 
I used to get a lot of magazines.

In the past, I would keep a file of magazines - I have an extensive collection of the first few years of Petersen's Photographic, and also several years of Lenswork. I also was a regular subscriber to Popular Photography - until it was bought out by the publisher of Modern Photography who fired the entire editorial staff and replaced them with the people who had driven Modern Photography into bankruptcy. And for many years, I receiveved PSA Journal (and wrote a number of articles published in that magazine).

As to wood turning, I liked WoodTurning Design and subscribed for the last two or three years of its run. I still get Woodturning (the English magazine, but rather than keep entire issues, I clip and retain only the articles that I think I might want to look at again later, mostly project articles.
 
I still enjoy getting the magazines. I prefer something I can hold over a digital version. I get Wood, Woodcraft, and Woodturning, which is published in Europe. I find Woodturning to be filled with projects, easy to understand instructions, and interesting tidbits about so many other things. Shipping from Europe makes it more expensive but worth it, I think
 
I keep all mine but if I were to get rid of them I would look into donating the local woodturning club or maybe a school with a woodworking class
 
I dropped most magazines and only get Fine Woodworking.

A year ago I got an Amazon Fire 10 tablet and now read free books and magazines through my library system.
I read
Woodsmith
Australian Woodsmith
Australian Wood Review
Woodcraft
Woodworkers Journal
Popular Woodworking
This Old House
And others such gardening, cars, guns, quilting, cooking etc...
There are over 3000 magazines you can read without subscribing to them
 
Same story here….used to subscribe to a few mags and purchased many others regularly at the local newsstand. I loved hitting the newsstand and browsing the selection. It was a sad day for me when it closed. I much prefer a paper magazine or book compared to my tablet. Hard to explain, but it's a tactile feel kind of thing, I guess. I'm a brick and mortar type of guy as well and hate having to order everything online these days. I want to see and feel what it is I'm buying. As for the stacks of mags I inevitably ended up with, when the time came to part ways, I was able to give many away. Unfortunately, a lot simply ended up in the trash, as I had no room to continue storing them.
 
jttheclockman said:
Was wondering how many people here still get magazines of any kind?? How many get specific magazines linked to their hobbies? Have to say at one time I was a magazine hoarder and got just about every woodworking magazine out there. I also subscribed to every scrollsawing magazine. I did get a few years of Pen Turners magazine but I have since stopped all magazines and probably one reason was the cost. Saving lots of money there. Plus after awhile every woodworking magazine became nothing but ads and the tool reviews were basically the same. The Scrollsawing magazines became ads too and the patterns they included just were to simple and basic and I outgrew that. I also was a Popular Mechanics magazine guy.

Now with this said here is the next part of this question, what did you do with all magazines. I kept all and now have an attic full of all kinds and want to get rid of them but just do not want to throw away. Looking for an answer. Have my scrollsawing magazines on FB marketplace but no one wants them and the asking price is basically a give away price. The patterns alone in them are a great value. Have we as a society reall became allergic to paper products such as newspapers and magazines and the WWW has consumed our feeble minded brains?? Like to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
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Few years ago my fil came into some car magazines like motor trend, etc. He bundled them altho I don't know how many in a bundle and had good luck selling them on ebay.
 
I have been a subscriber to Maximum PC for many many years, and last month they changed to an all digital mag. I had to cancel my subscription. I spend all day on the computer and don't feel like reading my mags on the screen too.
 
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