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I find my iPad to be sufficient if I want to kick back on the couch and read. I'd love to grab a large form e-Ink tablet but they're neither fast enough, nor cheap. ($600 for a Boox, what? I can get an iPad for $400 that is faster and more versatile and has more application support). But it's getting there.
Yes, lots of them. I hate reading on the screen, enough that I own a color laser printer more or less just to print articles that I want to read that are online. But for the most part, I find articles in print magazines to be far superior over what is online: better moderated, more interesting, better written, etc. This probably isn't a complete list, but I pay for: THE NEW YORKER, BUSINESS WEEK, THE ATLANTIC, TIME,…
I too hate reading on the computer.
Why? I enjoy breaks from screens. I'd love to find something like the old NatGeo, TVGuide, or Reader's Digest. If anyone has recs, please let me know.
Buy individual print from time to time based on pictorial content
Private Eye is a hardcore investigative-journalism outlet, arguably unique in the country. It's very info-dense (despite dedicating roughly half the space to humorous content), so reading it online would be too hard for me. Tbh i don't even know if they have an online version (they do have an occasional podcast, "Page 94").
MCN is a weekly tabloid about motorbikes. I just like to read it while I have breakfast, with the brain only half-awake. The "ooh shiny" ogling of new bikes benefits from larger-size pictures. It has a digital equivalent (which I also pay for) but I go there only when I want to keep something for the long run (trip suggestions etc). It is occasionally too full of barely-misguided ads, but that's par for the course in what is effectively a small and expensive hobby niche.
I'm in the UK, and I subscribe to two weekly publications: Private Eye and MCN. Private Eye is a hardcore investigative-journalism outlet, arguably unique in the country. It's very info-dense (despite dedicating roughly half the space to humorous content), so reading it online would be too hard for me. Tbh i don't even know if they have an online version (they do have an occasional podcast, "Page 94"). MCN is a weekl…
I have a kid now, so if I’m paying for the New Yorker I want it to be available to them too if they come across it.
In contrast I read only physical books, no e-books.
I'm a bit of an edge case though, I'm a native English speaker but have lived in non-English speaking countries since 2004. Access to digital English content is just more convenient, and cheaper. Plus, although this has never been a conscious reason, ecologically a print subscription would be worse.
I enjoy reading the physical magazine without having to be at my desk or the distraction that comes along with staring at a screen. Reading physical media is also a nice break/escape from reading academic papers and other stuff online. My print subscriptions: Foreign Affairs, New Yorker, New York Review of Books.
Sub to:
- Economist - New Yorker - Foreign Affairs - New York Review of Books - London Review of Books
Love them all, deeply. And then use the reviews as firestarters.