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Do you get any 'specialist' magazines or mag subscriptions?

Subscription:

Private Eye
Tape Op


Regularly buy/read:

Sound On Sound
Lighting & Sound International
Total Production International
 
Subs to Private Eye and the Economist. Free magazines I get: Public Finance, Government Computing, Computing, Whitehall and Westminster World.
 
Subs:

Private Eye
London Review of Books
New In Chess

I also get the daily online newsletter Chess Today.

I'll occasionally buy Péon Del Rey (King's Pawn) on the specious grounds that I'm reading it to improve my Spanish.
 
I've been meaning to check out the LRB - a friend has been raving about it recently. Where can you buy it? Will I have to go to Foyles?
 
Yeah i get the british journal of photography and national geographic religously - my uncle buys me subscriptions for xmas and birthday


i never get round to reading them though :(
 
Subs
Dogs Today
Cosmopolitan
Digital SLR
Smoke

Buy
K9 mag
Skin Deep
Total Tattoo
Practical Photography
Your Dog
 
Subscriptions

Private Eye - but it's run out and I haven't renewed it as I'll be moving, it was great for finding out about the latest developments in office politics where I work!
Ethical Consumer http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/
Red Pepper http://www.redpepper.org.uk/
(This reminds me I ought to check the pigeon holes at work and see if my latest copies are there.)
I might or might not still be getting The Journalist (from the NUJ) delivered back home.

I regularly get Monocle magazine - I would have got a subscription, but it's quite expensive and the mail delivery over here is a bit too hit and miss to risk it, it's a wee bit too pretentious my liking really, aimed at people who are more trendier-than-thou than the likes of me, but I like their coverage of Latin America and Scandinavia and Africa, they cover some interesting stories and issues. I don't get the obsession with Japan and all things Japanese though.
http://www.monocle.com/

I also regularly get a variety of magazines depending on whether the coverlines pique my interest: The Economist, New Statesman, Newsweek, New Scientist, National Geographic, Marie Claire and other women's glossies. And since I'm planning renovations to my flat I've developed a really bad property p0rn habit. :o Oh, and since moving to the Gulf, I've developed a habit of picking up Ahlan! at the supermarket checkout, which is the Gulf's version of Hello/Ok. :o

I've just checked my mountainous reading pile on my coffee table and there's: a few copies of Ahlan!, Arabian Business, The Week (the British version, picked up at the airport on my way back here), Wired, African Business, New Africa, several Economists, a few New Scientists, Standpoint, Emel, a few Monocles, a few House Beautifuls, House & Garden, Ethical Consumers, Red Peppers, Foreign Affairs, Washington Report, Good Housekeeping.

I'm a magazine tart, no particular loyalty, put it about a bit. :o
 
I just buy. It means going out of my way sometimes like. Interzone is especially unreliable and hard to find at a newsagents. 2 private eyes a month and viz occasionally.

Subscription is convenient I suppose, but with the buying per edition method you can not buy shit editions and just buy the good.
 
There seems to be a dearth of really interesting diverse magazines out there nowadays-anyone remember the heady days of The Zine magazine? :cool:
 
I have a Subscription to Songlines (world music mag) and considering one to Lonely Planet travel mag.

Other mags I sometimes buy are Word, Marie Claire, National Geographic and Private Eye.

Last week I bought a years subscription to Olive (food mag) as a wedding gift and over the years have bought trashy ones such as Glamour and Cosmo for my sisters.
 
The only magazine I ever actually subscribed to was the now sadly defunct Total Football. Much better than FourFourTwo or MOTD, yet sadly went under.
 
Yes :)

Were you a Zine Geezer? And did you get it when it was Charlotte's Mag?

I never saw it when it was Charlotte's Mag but found a few copies of The Zine when living in Exeter and it changed my life-met some amazing people through it and became a riot grrl and ran away to London:D
 
Only "Lavatory Dynamiter's Gazette", which is a quarterly. I'm very lucky to have their souvenir "Armitage Shanks & Black Powder - We Find The Best Combo" issue.
 
Professional Engineer, included as part of the Institute membership and is actually not as bad as it sounds. I appreciate it really couldn't be as bad as it sounds.

I've always wondered why they have executive positions advertised in it - surely if a company was after a new Exec they'd already know the likely candidates. Sadly, they've no positions vacant for disinterested and demotivated design engineers.

The National Trust send someting through which never makes it out of the polythene. The LTA used to send me their magazine for years after I stopped paying subs. And that's about it.
 
I honestly didn't know they have it there! Thanks :) Now you have to PM me where it is, and your LRB log in ;)

The one I really want is the NYRB. I wonder if they have that at Keele :hmm:

Done.

They don't have the NYRB. I asked.

But they do have some other interesting magazines. Sight & Sound is in there, for example. I remember I started reading it because they had a feature on The Wire.

I spent a lot of time in the periodicals section.

University was both wasted and not wasted on me.
 
I subscribe to fine woodworking, it has some good tips and is also hilariously American in a checked shirt, thick moustache and jeans way.
 
I never saw it when it was Charlotte's Mag but found a few copies of The Zine when living in Exeter and it changed my life-met some amazing people through it and became a riot grrl and ran away to London:D

Me too!

Well, not when I was living in Exeter, and I didn't run away to London (and jury's out as to whether I became a riot grrrl), but it definitely changed my life :)

In fact, I can draw diagrams and word maps of exactly how it changed the entire course of my life :hmm:

Cheers Bo & Cedric :cool:
 
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