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Malcolm_XMalcolm_X Posts: 93
edited March 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I got a subscription to the New Yorker for Christmas which I love!!! But its weekly, and sometimes it gets very hard for me to finish the whole thing because I'm busy and a week later a new issue is out. So I'm just curious are you supposed to read the whole thing, or just some of the articles. I just feel if I do't read all the articles then I've missed out on some stuff.
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  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    I subscribe to National Geographic and must have at least 20 still in their plastic bags. I plan to get through the lot especially when I retire.
  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    I get the economist and I never finish all of it. sometimes I only have time for a few articles. I think that's the point of magazines.
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    nuffingman wrote:
    I subscribe to National Geographic and must have at least 20 still in their plastic bags. I plan to get through the lot especially when I retire.

    Yeah - you can go back later and see how the articles contradict the earlier ones.
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  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    know1 wrote:
    Yeah - you can go back later and see how the articles contradict the earlier ones.
    Good point. It's like reading an old newspaper sport preview and knowing the result and realising what utter bollocks they speak. Mind you I'm not sure how much more they can learn about the mating habits of a dung beetle.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    We subscribe to a number of magazines...Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Prehistoric Times, Audubon, National Wildlife..then we pick up a number of other ones on a regular basis...Trains, Bird Watcher's Digest, Birder's World, Nature's Best Photography..and I have finally gotten to the point where I don't feel the need to read every article...if I recycle a magazine and miss reading an article, I can always go to the library at school to read it.
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  • anothercloneanotherclone Posts: 1,688
    I get a bunch of magazines. I read them mostly on my lunch hour at work.

    I crack those babies open and

    day 1
    Carefully scan the whole thing from begninning to end
    day 2-3
    Go back and read the things I find interesting or important
    day 4
    Go to the other articles I missed and kind of do a brief read of those to see what I can learn

    day 5
    toss it in the trash. :D
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    I get the economist and I never finish all of it. sometimes I only have time for a few articles. I think that's the point of magazines.

    I had to subscribe to this for class last semester and I thought it was enough reading the few articles I was assigned before getting a brand new one, I can't imagine reading the whole thing.
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  • londonwprlondonwpr Posts: 293
    I'm on many different magazines comp lists for work and they come in faster than I could ever read them all. It does help that I dedicate about 40 minutes a day to spending time on the john and reading through them though!
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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    I had a subscription to Time Magazine and I read the whole thing.
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  • markymark550markymark550 Posts: 5,154
    The only magazine I have a subscription to is Sports Illustrated. I hardly ever read the whole thing though. It's not that I want to, but don't have the time. It's that I don't read the articles that I think will bore me. Golf, tennis, hockey, and racing (of any kind - cars, horses, whatever) usually go unread.
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Malcolm_X wrote:
    I got a subscription to the New Yorker for Christmas which I love!!! But its weekly, and sometimes it gets very hard for me to finish the whole thing because I'm busy and a week later a new issue is out. So I'm just curious are you supposed to read the whole thing, or just some of the articles. I just feel if I do't read all the articles then I've missed out on some stuff.

    I got the New Yorker a few years ago, thought it was great. However, the weekly issues were a bit much to keep up on, so I let it slide. Now it's an airplane magazine for me, along with Games.

    The only magazine I subscribe to now is Wired, which I tend to get through pretty quick.
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