What magazines did you enjoy reading? Can be at any stage of your life. I enjoyed Reader's Digest,

[debm55]

Mad, and National Geographic.

[FalloutShelter]

1. Same for me on both counts.

[Permanut]

2. High school, 60 or so years ago..

Hot Rod and Car Craft. I still have some of them

[debm55]

54. Great,

[LizBeth]

3. 2, 3, 4 decades ago. Time, National Geo, Psychology Today

Had subscription to all three and they would come in, I would put on dining room table. I also would work on that table so my boys would come in to connect, chat or just sit and read all three mag for most of their lives

[debm55]

55. What a great idea

[keithbvadu2]

4. Consumer Reports but the price went too high.

[debm55]

56. We would read it at the library before me made a major purchase.

[TexasDem69]

5. National Geographic

Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated. All back before everything became available online and news journalism took a hit (IMO).

[GP6971]

10. The repukes would ban

NG today. I think they ceased publication of their hard copy.

[TexasDem69]

40. We actually have a subscription to NG

And still get the monthly hard copy

[debm55]

57. We got Time and Newsweek. Brother got Sports Illustrated

[GP6971]

6. Mad

Newsweek and US News & World Report...60s & 70s.

[debm55]

58. Spy vs Spy--my favorite in Mad, Miss it

[BOSSHOG]

7. Oh deb

An issue with me. Readers Digest used to be a superlative almost tome. Today it’s like the local paper, getting smaller. But always a somewhat conduit for subliminal right wing messaging. I picked up 4 copies of 1998 readers Digest this weekend from our recycling center. Great stuff compared to current editions. Sports Illustrated from the 70s and 80s did a great job of dealing with SPORTS. Todays it’s a serious edition of People Magazine, but I’m still subscribing 50 years later. Way back when I dug deep into Money Magazine. I guess that’s what number nerds do. And Playboy because of the articles. Great articles

[debm55]

59. I haven't seen a recent edition of Reader's Digest. I really liked the jokes and puns and stories,

Miss reading.

[BOSSHOG]

66. Yesterday I got a September 1973 RD

My to read pile is growing. I see from the cover, this edition has a story on abortion. Looking forward to it.

[BOSSHOG]

72. Wacky info about Readers Digest

Hello My Friend

This is kinda wacky but interesting

Readers Digest

SEP 1973 .50 cents 259 pages
FEB 1998. 2.25 220 pages
JUL/AUG 2023. 5.99. 112 pages (now published 6 times a year)

I’m currently on the latest Drama in Real Life, a man attacked by an alligator

I also get the Old Farmers Almanac, not a mag but good reading. I order it each year, also get a calendar and fascimilies of 100 years past OFA. Looking forward to getting the 1824, 1924 and 2024 Old Farmers Almanac any day now.

Happy Reading. Got a koozie from our wonderful lil Library. It says “Libraries are the Future”. I’ll drink to that.

[rsdsharp]

8. There was a time when we subscribed to more than 25 magazines.

We still have a few, but nothing like 20-30 years ago.

[debm55]

12. Must have been that "special offer" where you got the magazine for free but paid for shipping. That

is what we had too--TV Guide, Time, Look, Reader's Digest. PA Game and Stream , etc,etc.

[rsdsharp]

20. No, we pretty much paid for them; subscription rates, but a couple ran about $75/yr.

I’m trying to remember them. There were enough that I used to keep a spreadsheet so I didn’t just pay up subscriptions years into the future.

Smithsonian
American Heritage
Good Old Days
Ideals
Omni
Astronomy
National Geographic
Sports Illustrated
Sporting News
Vineland (Chicago Cubs magazine)
Playboy
Time or Newsweek
Bob Appétit
Food and Wine
Stereo Review
High Fidelity
Guns & Ammo
Shooting Times
Handguns
Knives Illustrated
Blade
Tactical Knives
Mother Earth News
TV Guide
Advance (Iowa Public TV Guide)
Readers Digest
Cross Stitch (And three or four other cross stitch or quilting magazines. I didn’t read them, and the names kept changing)

[debm55]

60. WOW

[Ocelot II]

9. When I was a kid we got National Geographic, the Saturday Evening Post

and Reader's Digest, all of which I read avidly - Reader's Digest for the jokes and funny stories. Before they began to suck I read Time and Newsweek; I still read National Geographic, and now I also read Vanity Fair and Atlantic.

[debm55]

61. Ocelot II very selections

[beveeheart]

11. The Saturday Evening Post back in the late 50's, early 60's

[debm55]

62. Good choices

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. Look and Life were in my house. Then Time and Newsweek.

[debm55]

63. Same here,

[Wicked Blue]

14. MAD

and later, National Lampoon

[debm55]

64. My guilty pleasure was MAD. Miss it

[Polly Hennessey]

15. Glamour, Newsweek, Vanity Fair.

[debm55]

65. Great selection , Polly

[Archae]

16. Reader's Digest, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Boy's Life.

I wasn't a boy scout, but my cousin gave me his when he was done reading them.

[Deuxcents]

17. I used to subscribe to The Nation

And Mother Jones but they came so fast, I ended up not getting to read em before another cycle came. My friend recycles her copy to me but I’m behind on the articles sometimes.

[MichMan]

18. Car and Driver plus Road & Track

Now I am much more interested in car magazines about vintage and classic cars. My favorite is Collectible Automobile

[MLAA]

19. When I was in my early teens I also read Readers Digest cover to cover.

[Silent Type]

21. Time, Mad, Sports I, Bicycling, Rolling Stone, work related, musical

instrument magazines, Outside, newspapers, Hi Fi, etc.

Didn’t know better at time, but internet is so much better, accepting dumbed-down journalism.

[grumpyduck]

22. NG, Smithsonian, Natural History,

and several trade mags on woodworking. Also Archaeology, Astronomy, and similar mags now and then.

[First Speaker]

23. 1963--Mad, Marvel Comics...

...1973--Analog, Galaxy, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

...1983--F & SF, New Republic, Harper's

...1993--Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Down East (was thinking of a move to Maine...)

...2003--The Nation, Commonweal, Mother Jones

...2013--New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated

...2023--back to Harper's, Latham's Quarterly, Jacobin, Garrison

...and many others at all times...

[doc03]

24. We had Life, National Rifleman, Outdoor Life and Readers Digest growing up. nt

[DBoon]

25. Did anyone else read "In These Times"?

Co-Evolution Quarterly?

on edit:
Up to college I read science mags - Science News, Electronics Illustrated, and Science and Mechanics. Science and Mechanics was a real boy's magazine. They had a regular Q&A article called "Ask Joe Guts". It was a crackup.

In college I started reading political magazines. I subscribed to one called "Open Road". It was an anarchist publication from Vancouver, Canada. Every issues would be opened and resealed by the post office. Also got Co-Evolution Quarterly (from Stewart Brand), In These Times, and Mother Jones.

[captain queeg]

26. Oh c'mon. I'll say it Playboy. Ok I didn't actually "read" it.

I did have a subscription for awhile. I read my dads Readers Digest and US News and World Report. Field and Steam, Outdoor Life,Newsweek, Time, American Heritage.

[Bristlecone]

27. National Geographic, Mad, Time, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag

Highlights when I was little.

[mockmonkey]

30. I forgot about Alfred Hitchcock's magazine

I used to enjoy that.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

68. Read Time, preferred Newsweek

[ailsagirl]

28. When I was a kid, I read Life and Time magazines

My parents subscribed.

[mockmonkey]

29. From age 8 to 25

Mad Magazine along with Cracked and Sick. My brother and I would also get the paperback
versions of Mad Magazine.

For some reason I was into Travel Trailers so I got Trailer Life and other magazines of that sort.
I hated camping so I think I was just fascinated by how they designed the interiors.

Car and Driver, Motor Trend. Back then there was enough differences to tell what brand a car was.

Famous Monsters from Filmland. Fangoria.

From there I moved on to National Lampoon and SPY.

[highplainsdem]

31. Rolling Stone. Omni (and the digest-size SF magazines, Analog and

Galaxy and Fantasy & Science Fiction and Asimov's). National Geographic. Smithsonian. New Yorker. Both Time and Newsweek. Glamour, Mademoiselle and Vogue. Scientific American. Prevention. Psychology Today. Vanity Fair. Country Living.

[Prairie_Seagull]

46. That is so funny,

5, I remember most from a while back. Heavy Metal, Omni and Rolling Stone, Black Belt and Surfer. Wasted youth. Nah waasted youth.

[LeftInTX]

32. Highlights, Sixteen, Tigerbeat, Mad, Seventeen, Cosmo, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue

How sophisticated...LOL

[GPV]

34. Same plus MAD, Victoria, and Dragon

[niyad]

33. Just a few of my favourites:

Ms Magazine
Food and Wine
Gourmet
Cusine
Bon Appetit
Chocolatier
Wine Spectator
Smithsonian
Harper's
Cosmopolitan
Bitch
Atlantic
Circle Sanctuary
Sage Woman
Fiber Arts
Threads
Belle Armoire
Santa Fe
Renaissance
New Yorker
Vogue
Town and Country
Art of the West
Psychology Today
various herb and gardening magazines
Mother Jones
Mother Earth News
Village Voice
various city magazines, including SF, LA, San Diego, Houston, Denver, Colorado Springs
Texas Monthly
various retail bookseller publications
etc., etc., etc.

[Emile]

35. Mother Earth News

[Emile]

36. High Times

[True Dough]

37. 2 out of 3, debm!

I was also an avid consumer of MAD and Reader's Digest.

Laughter, the Best Medicine, the Word Power quiz, All in a Day's Work, Life in These United States, Points to Ponder, Quotable Quotes, Humor in Uniform. I loved all of those regular features as a young reader. And there were some compelling dramatic articles about rescues that I was thrilled to read.

A handy size for bathroom reading as well!

[onethatcares]

38. befpre things got crazy

EasyRiders with stories by J J Solari being the funniest things I've ever read. Especially the story about his female partner that died prior to a poker run and he had to keep her on the motorcycle.

[malthaussen]

39. Not real big on magazines, but like the Economist...

... don't like its subscription rates, though.

Subscribed to Playboy for a couple years in my 20s, and as the old joke says, it had some great articles and short fiction, not that those were the prime reason for subscribing.

My longest-running subscription was to a rag called Strategy and Tactics, which included a wargame in each issue (it was published by the then-greatest maker of wargames, Simulations Publications Inc). Military history is my longest-running interest, although I don't get S&T anymore.

Read MAD almost monthly, but never subscribed.

-- Mal

[Paladin]

41. MAD, and my great-aunt's vintage collection of "National Geographic."

I trust that some of my fellow old-timers will relate to the "National Geographic" comment without further explanation...

[Fla Dem]

42. Life magazine, Newsweek magazine and Readers Digest. All 3 from about JR high until....?

Over the years just stopped reading them. Life magazine stopped publishing and Newsweek magazine stopped publishing and became an online magazine. Readers Digest? Don't know why I stopped, probably just didn't have the time.

[BluesRunTheGame]

43. CoEvolution Quarterly

[Elessar Zappa]

44. National Geographic.

Maxim when I was a young guy and Boy’s Life when I was a child.

[debm55]

50. I read somewhere that National Geographic was going to stop publishing. Haven't seen anything since.

[electric_blue68]

45. Life, Time, National Geographic, New York Mag, Arizona Highways,The New Yorker, OMNI...

Ornament, New York Rocker (a Zine).

I'd read other magazines at the library, and for several years at Barns & Nobels.q

[debm55]

49. So did I , at the B and N cafe.

[electric_blue68]

69. 👍

[Mr.Bill]

47. I still have 85 issues of Rolling Stone.

They date from the early 70s to the mid 80s. They aren't really worth anything so I figured if I'm ever in a convalescent home I will share them with all the other Baby Boomers there.

And believe it or not, I subscribed to TV Guide for over 20 years. When it came I would go through it page by page highlighting all the shows I wanted to watch. I also read all the articles.

I also enjoyed National Lampoon. I have about a dozen of those from the 70s.

[debm55]

48. Are they worth anything?

[Mr.Bill]

51. Antique dealers have offered me $1 a piece.

They are in fair to good condition. They are all complete, no torn or missing pages. There are a few issues that are worth more. Anniversary editions, and I do have the Holy Grail issue, the one after John Lennon was killed, with the iconic Annie Liebovitz picture of a nude Lennon cuddling with a fully dressed Yoko Ono on the cover. It was very controversial at the time. I don't know what someone would have to offer me for that one. A copy of the first issue would probably be valuable and more scarce, but I don't have that one. I have a lot of issues with Hunter S. Thompson articles. Thompson fans would like those, I suppose.

Typically antique dealers would put them on a shelf and ask about $5 each for them.

[debm55]

52. Oh, I would hold onto them.

[Mr.Bill]

53. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. n/t

[Laffy Kat]

67. Several. And now the clinic where I work has removed all the mags from the waiting areas.

Ever since covid and they're not bringing them back. Patients miss magazines, especially our older patients. I keep a few tucked away for when people complain. Not everyone looks at their phone while waiting. I prefer mags to the Internet when I wait in offices. I usually keep an "emergency" book in my purse, too.

[electric_blue68]

70. Oh, how could I forget MAD magazine, and later Rolling Stone!

[Hotler]

71. Cycle and Cyclenews.

Cycle was a monthly motorcycle magazine and Cyclenews was a weekly tabloid. Cycle is gone to the dust bin and Cyclenews is still around and in online edition.