Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for?

none. as far as I can tell, the sort of thing I'm interested in is delivered faster, better, and in a more convenient format for free here online. I occasionally read the IEEE "computer" publications my girl leaves laying about the house, but those are mostly about things I don't care much about. Occasionally they talk about new networking tech.

Paper is just so hard to deal with. I mean, I keep books, but periodicals are somehow more... disposable?

Re: Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for?

#7

Post by AN447 » Mon, Aug 09, 2010, 10:43 AM UTC

Economist at 70% (student) discount/FT full blown corporate sub from my time there as a journalist

Re: Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for?

#8

Post by c1sc0 » Mon, Aug 09, 2010, 11:38 AM UTC

lsc wrote: post #6

none. as far as I can tell, the sort of thing I'm interested in is delivered faster, better, and in a more convenient format for free here online. I occasionally read the IEEE "computer" publications my girl leaves laying about the house, but those are mostly about things I don't care much about. Occasionally they talk about new networking tech. Paper is just so hard to deal with. I mean, I keep books, but periodical…

Congrats on meeting a girl who leaves IEEE laying about the house! Treat her well! ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for?

#9

Post by dmlorenzetti » Mon, Aug 09, 2010, 2:08 PM UTC

The New Yorker for fun reading. The Week for a light digest of the news. National Geographic for my wife. I'll likely subscribe to NYTimes when it goes behind the paywall.

Work provides the technical publications.

Re: Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for?

#10

Post by kierank » Mon, Aug 09, 2010, 2:40 PM UTC

The Economist and Private Eye.