Ask HN: Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore?

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Do you subscribe to print magazines anymore? What is your favorite/Best one if so?

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Bi-weekly Science News is a must have for me in print. https://www.sciencenews.org/
Likewise, but Nature shows up weekly. I react to most of the research papers like a dog who's been shown a card trick, but the front half of the book is always interesting and up to the minute.
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Scientific American and Atlantic Monthly. Gotta have something next to the toilet that won’t set me back hundreds of dollars should it fall in while I’m reading.
Get a waterproof phone or tablet?
No, but it's not for a lack of trying. I like tangible things. All magazines I've seen just recycle existing information, or are just full of text.

Maybe I have too high expectations, but I want a magazine that's both brainpower & beauty.

Interesting. I want text. I figure that I can get pretty pictures online. I want it to be full of text. I guess that would depend on the subject matter though.
Have you read Lapham's Quarterly?
I only subscribe to print magazines when it's literature (The Paris Review). News/science/technology is easier to filter and read through online, in my opinion.
The economomist continues to be high quality. It is an expensive way to get your news but I think it’s worth it.
Ditto. The Economist covers topics in depth that I don't see covered at all elsewhere. I also subscribe to 'The New Yorker'. I disagree vehemently with their politics but respect them as a source of good writing on diverse and sometimes tweaky topics.
I have a hobby that I read 3-4 print magazines for (fishing in the northwest, not that it matters) and after numerous times talking to the publishers, I still, in 2018, cannot get them to distribute an electronic version. I would pay big money for a digital archive of one of them all the way back to the 60's. They all fear piracy so strongly they won't innovate. Boggles my mind.
I buy a subscripton to a Home Interiors mag for my sister every year at Christmas.
No, the same way as I avoid to buy anything available in a digital version (books, movies, video games, etc).
I do prefer a hard copy print of things, but the issue I have with print magazines is its loaded with advertisements everywhere normally.

Its like browsing a web article without running uBlock origin. Once you have an adblock its hard to go back

The only ones I remember enjoying are national geographic though.

National Geographic and I'd like to get Nautilus' prints as well, but I've heard that they have (or had) a tough time getting orders fulfilled in a timely manner. I'd really dislike getting a certain month's magazine a month or more later; for me, in such cases, consistency is key.
I am also a happy NG subscriber.
No. I sometimes miss it but reading on a tablet has taken over that. I will semi-regularly see what electronic mags I can get through the public library or what is available on Amazon's prime reading.
Bloomberg Businessweek
I get the AAII journal and Ad Astra because of my memberships in those orgs. Rarely have time to read them but they are sometimes really interesting. Have been considering getting one of the ham radio mags.
Not counting the engineers union magazines I get, the only one I subscribe is Skrolli, which is a Finnish hobbyist computer magazine. They have international numbers if you are interested, highly recommended for anyone interested in specialized topics and retro computers.

Check out the international edition here: https://skrolli.fi/en/international/

I think the last magazine I had a subscription to was actually Print.
Current Archaeology (which covers the UK) and Current World Archaeology (the rest of the world).
I'm considering subscribing to The Economist.

I was a Time subscriber, but I stopped a year ago as I felt it was too focused on the US. I've been reading newspapers online since then and feel like I don't remember anything I've read online whereas I still remember some articles from the printed Time edition.

I'm not in a first-world country, so I don't subscribe to any magazines (nor have I ever) because I think that the physical delivery would be a pain in the ass and that I will always be one issue behind, but the last sentence is the reason I like to pick up a copy of Wired at the airport (their website is not even close quality-wise).

At this point I should probably just subscribe to the digital edition, but it seems like I can't do that on my Kindle without having them waste paper on me specifically every month or so.

I'm considering it too. Also occasionally get a sub to Viz and Private Eye but let them go when the quality dips, as it does occasionally.
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I subscribe to Fine Woodworking. It is hands-down the best publication on the topic and does a great job with its content. I could use the website to get the information, but it is far faster to read a magazine than navigating the website and nothing really beats full-page color diagrams above trying to fit it on my phone's screen.
i just began my first print edition subscription to the new yorker.
I subscribed to Wire because I remember how awesome the articles were at my tech-industry family member's house. It has definitely gone downhill from what I had remembered, all ad selling articles.
I previously subscribed to Clarkesworld in paper. Last year I switched to digital only so that Neil would get more money.
The New Yorker is my only print subscription. Literature, art, science, and current events, every issue has articles I find worth while.
The Wire (music magazine)

Trail Runner magazine

That's it.