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What NON NEWS/ Non Sports magazines do you read? - Seems like every time I subscribe to a magazine, they just sit there, getting leafed thru once in a while, but really not read.

I have umpteen places to get my up to the minute news and sports, but what magazines do any of the rest of you enjoy for purely entertainment reasons?

Which ones do you really read??
posted by billy to entertainment at 8:12 A.M. EST     (18 Comments)

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Circuit Cellar, Discover, Sky and Telescope, CQ magazine, are the big ones. But I'll read pretty much any "science magazine"

Depends a lot on what you like or what hobbies you have. I love Books-A-Million in Levis commons, they have an entire wall dedicated to periodicals. Pick your hobby i'm sure they have at least 2-3 magazines for it.

Electronics, Science, Politics, Fashion, Crafts, Body Building, it's just amazing.

My fiance just picked up 3 different magazines dedicated to weddings there :)
posted by jshriver at 08:19 A.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

I love Books-A-Million in Levis commons

They even carry soldier of fortune!
posted by tm at 09:33 A.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

LOL - soldier of fortune... Well, I guess I could say that it wouldnt just sit in the potty collecting dust!!

Your two responses gave made me think that maybe I should just go out there and buy mag's onzies and twozies till I find somethign I could get into monthly for a year...
posted by billy at 11:38 A.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

Billy, They definatly have tons of magazines, many that you can't find anywhere else. Also a lot of specialty car magazines. (those are the one's i get (for hubby), but i have to admit, i DID but soldiers of fortune once. LOL, but, I usually get lost over in fiction 8-)

One other store i kindof like is Borders at FP. They have some good stuff there too. (movies, music, books, mags etc) What i like about that place is i can see if they have what i want online and reserve it to pick it up. (they will special order stuff and e-mail you when it comes in too)
posted by tm at 11:51 A.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

..Borders at FP..

I use to be a big Borders fan. Then I bought their membership think it was $20-30 a year? To get the extra savings on the new books.

In retrospect, Books-A-Million is a better deal. Membership is only $10 and you get 40-50% off the cover on new release (I already have the new HP book on reserve and paid 50% off retail).

Meanwhile the same day I bought my membership to Borders they said I couldn't get the discount off of Eragon even though it was still on the top sellers list because it was a "childrens book". Just my view though. They do have a nice atmosphere and a good manga selection.
posted by jshriver at 12:17 P.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

Birder's World
posted by jr at 02:54 P.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

The New Yorker, The American Gardener, Pond, Garden Design, Aquarium Fish Magazine, Horticulture, Koi, Birds & Blooms, Tropical Fish, Consumer Reports, Science, Popular Science, This Old House and Cooks Illustrated. No shortage of anything to grab on the way to the bathroom.
posted by holland at 03:13 P.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

Forgot Discover magazine.
posted by holland at 03:14 P.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

I cut my magazine consumption way back, but I still read Smithsonian, Esquire and Dwell
posted by Ace_Face at 08:13 P.M. EST on Tue Mar 20, 2007     #

Coastal, Home, the Futurist (a magazine published by the Futurist Society) and, despite being a catalog and not a magazine - Jackson Perkins...

My non-news reading deals with decorating, gardening and trends...really an escape from everyday business...

Does anyone know of magazine exchanges where I can take my older ones and maybe pick up some others I don't subscribe to?
posted by MaggieThurber at 09:25 A.M. EST on Wed Mar 21, 2007     #

Skeptical Inquirer.

Does anyone know of magazine exchanges where I can take my older ones and maybe pick up some others I don't subscribe to?

Maggie: The 577 Foundation
577 Front Street Perrysburg
posted by Offshore at 09:35 A.M. EST on Wed Mar 21, 2007     #

has anyone ever heard of Mental Floss?
posted by billy at 09:42 A.M. EST on Wed Mar 21, 2007     #

My only subscription is Film Comment. I get Parabola, Wax Poetics, Stop Smiling and occasionally Adbuster's from Leo's Book Store downtown. My dad saves me a copy of the New Yorker that he thinks I will like every so often.
posted by ifXthenWhyNot at 12:20 P.M. EST on Wed Mar 21, 2007     #

thanks Offshore!
posted by MaggieThurber at 01:59 P.M. EST on Wed Mar 21, 2007     #

Also forgot Science News, Southern Living and Country Gardens.
posted by holland at 04:19 P.M. EST on Wed Mar 21, 2007     #

I subscribe to PEOPLE magazine.
posted by Trish at 10:17 P.M. EST on Thu Mar 22, 2007     #

I subscribe to Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Discover, Scientific America, readers digest, National Geographic, Post, Guitar Player, Rolling Stone, Robb Report. CMJ.

Additionally I usually pick up a couple of other music magazines and several potographic magazines.
posted by roygbiv at 10:11 A.M. EST on Sat Mar 24, 2007     #

Smithsonian and National Geographic
posted by OhioKat at 06:51 A.M. EST on Mon Mar 26, 2007     #

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