title: Great Magazine

text: I have been a subscriber to this magazine for many years and I love it.  It has really good information in it, upcoming technology, and cool ideas.  It's well written and an easy read.  It's a great source to follow if you have questions are thinking of a DIY project.


title: Five Stars

text: excellant value for a legendary sports magazine


title: Bought for my wife

text: She loves it


title: Two months and they just received my subscription purchase??

text:
I've been reading on Inc.com all summer and waiting to buy the magazine in the fall when I'd be home to receive it. At the end of September I ordered it. September 27, 2009 to be exact. Amazon sends me an email saying it'll take a couple weeks to get the first magazine due to processing and handing over the contract or whatever is done so I'm fine with that. Yet as of yesterday all I've received is a small letter from Inc saying thanks for the subscription, would you like to buy the next year's at [...]? While it may not be Amazon's fault, it seems like if you order from Inc.com you get the last issue free right away, then you can choose wether to order it for [...] and get them right away, so for the [...] I saved I waited two more months.

The content online is generally great. I'm still waiting for my first actual magazine to come, I'm hoping for November's edition.


title: Fine for waiting at the dentist, but if you'er looking for substance, you could do better

text: Honestly, there's not really a lot of information in this thing.  There are some decent fashion articles (they often take a wardrobe item and show different interpretations to fit different body types which is really great) but for the most part, it's a lot of "15 minute belly fat busting workouts".  Their long forms are usually pretty boring and most of the content skews very heavily to the 'straight, white, well-off' reader, which is kind of a drag.


title: TV Guide subscription (1 year-renewable automatically)

text: I love reading TV Guide magazine. Always good articles and this subscription included a free digital copy of the magazine on the Kindle or Kindle app. Very convenient.


title: Even after all his experience he still finds useful new tips and tricks and enjoys getting new ideas ...

text: Bought for my Father who has been a scenic photographer for 40 years. He loves it! Even after all his experience he still finds useful new tips and tricks and enjoys getting new ideas for places to travel to shoot photos. Great gift even for those photographers that know it all.


title: Another Great Magazine for Pre-Readers/Emerging Readers

text:
I've been subscribing to Click, along with its sister publication, Ladybug, for about 2 years now. It's a great way to introduce the "real world" to my 5-year-old.
As an earlier review noted, each issue has a specific theme. For example, the last few issues were titled "At The Zoo", "In The Night Sky", "In The Islands", and "Busy Cities". This makes each issue like a mini-book, to be read and re-read, depending on your child's interest in the topic of the month.
Even if the current issue's topic doesn't engage your child, he/she will still want to read it, if only to see the recurring features, such as "Click & The Kids" and "Yo Wants To Know". This combination is a great way to introduce new topics in a familiar setting.
The writing is fresh and much more interesting to young minds than what you find in some other kids' magazines. Each story is well-illustrated. A given issue will have a variety of types of writing - cartoons, photoessays, non-fiction articles, 4-5 page fiction stories, and ideas of things to do.
This mix is great for kids with variable attention spans - if he/she can sit for 30 minutes, you can read the whole magazine. If 5 minutes, or 15 minutes, is today's limit, you can find something to fit that span.
Finally, as another reviewer noted, the magazine is written at several different comprehension levels, meaning that it spans the suggested age range quite well, with something for everyone, and that you can go back and read old issues with more mature eyes and get a new experience.
All in all, this magazine has been a great source of information for my son, and I recommend it highly.


title: A Great Magazine for Pre-Readers

text:
I've been subscribing to Ladybug for about 2 years now. It's a fantastic source of stories and to-do ideas for my 4-year-old.
Every month, my boy is excited to see a new issue show up in the mail. Each issue has a specific theme, but Ladybug also has several recurring features. This combination is a great way to introduce new topics in a familiar setting.
The writing is fresh and much more interesting to young minds than what you find in some other kids' magazines. Each story is well-illustrated. A given issue will have a variety of types of writing - cartoons, poems, songs, 4-5 page stories, ideas of things to do.
This magazine has been a great motivator for my son, and I recommend it highly.


title: Wonderful Resource

text:
My parents got this for me as a child, and I read it through high school.  Each issue is filled with wonderful stories and articles; engaging readers with darling "buggies", activities, and thought-provoking questions.  It's for kids, but not childish, like other magazines for the same age range.  The back section features stories and drawings from readers, allowing kids to see their talents are worthy of sharing.
Oddly, I kept nearly every issue, and have gone back to particular favorites - 30+ years after my first magazine.
If you have readers in the family, try this magazine out - they won't regret it.


title: Geared to squad members, not coaches

text: but I still enjoy flipping through its pages along with my girls, and find the articles on cheers, chants and stunts to be most helpful.


title: DO NOT SUBSCRIBE OR BUY!!!

text: They are such rip-off's! I subscribed in March and only got two issues before they stopped sending magazine's! I've emailed customer service multiple times but they've totally ignored me! Don't waste your money on this Mag!


title: My Thoughts

text: I always wanted to read Rolling Stone magazine, so I was pleased to hear I could get a one-year auto renewal at a discounted price. I found out that by reading through a few issues that this was not a magazine for me. I found it to be too political and some of the topics talked about in the issues did not suit me. I did like that when I canceled my subscription early that I did receive some cash back which made the experience worth it. If you like a magazine that has many articles on political topics than this is the magazine for you.


title: My tv. Guide

text: I like my tv guide I missed 1 magazine I told them and they correct it right away


title: Good magazine, but getting them is a task.

text: Love the magazine. Ordered in June receive first issue two months later, it is not mid-January and I’ve only received three issues in total.


title: Don’t do it

text: I have received ONE issue of this magazine since it’s renewal in September. Not to mention the renewal was automatic (unbeknownst to me and their very fine print). And impossible to cancel


title: Five Stars Love this magazine

text: A great variety of articles on everything home.


title: As advertized

text: As advertized


title: Great magazine

text: Great magazine for entrepreneurs! Amazing articles!


title: Five Stars

text: Always good Rading.. Year round.


title: Fun reading

text: A great magazine with some really interesting articles. Will help keep you up to date on upcoming technology and the tech world with a social/scientific bent.


title: Small window of listings

text: The TV Guide magazine is for my wife. It replaces the newspaper guide which is now priced too high. The TV Guide starts at 08:00 PM Eastern time. It has no day time listings therefore the listing window is small compared to the total TV broadcast time- around the clock 24/7.<br />Also my wife is not too interested in the stories and crossword puzzle. She would like more listings and less fluff.


title: Love this magazine

text: Love this magazine! I am a visual learner, so I look forward to learning  tricks and tips to common household projects. The new tool reviews have been spot on as well!


title: great magazine!

text: Im 52 and think I have found a magazine that is more my age appropriot. I will continue to get this one.


title: We're on the veranda.

text: Nice magazine. Maybe a bit too fussy for my taste.


title: A quarterly for gentlemen.

text: Great magazine that's given me some fashion tips I use every day.


title: Men's Journal worked for me

text: I enjoyed my subscription to Men's Journal. The articles are great and I learned a few things to up my style game.


title: In the Details.

text: I enjoyed Details Magazine, similar to GQ but skewed to a younger audience.


title: Cool

text: Great magazine, always arrive here with no problem. Love the advice that they give and that is why I have gotten the two year subscription, also it was way cheaper than going to the store and buying the magazine there he he. Love it!!!


title: Four Stars

text: son has gathered these in his room and hasnt looked at one. Wont buy again


title: Three Stars

text: very disappointed with this magazine. I expected more than just pictures of paint colors. wont order again.


title: like

text: like it a lot


title: Excellent magazine for anyone with any type of chronic pain condition - its not just for doctors offices

text: This magazine is great!  Anyone who suffers from any type of chronic pain condition or has a loved one who does should subscribe to this magazine.  Every month there is something in this magazine that I am able to say I have learned something from.  It is well worth the cost of the subscription for this magazine.


title: Life is a Beach !

text: My family as well as myself absolutely love this magazine. The wife enjoys the articles and I enjoy the recipes. Have tried numerous resipes and have turned out as tasty as they look. We enjoy the whole relaxing coastal atmosphere due to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. I save all my latest for camping so I can enjoy the whole magazine. Highly recommend you try it, you won't be dissapointed.


title: More How To's than other magazines of its kind!

text: I have subscribed to This Old House and How to's and this one gives me step by step information plus some nice ideas!


title: THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING OUT IN THE WILDERNESS...

text:
A rose in Hell would be all the fairer as a God-breathed thing casting its beauty even in depths of darkness.

I have grown quite fond of National Geographic Magazine over the past few years. I am not a subscriber. My parents are. Yet, even as occasional bathroom lit, this magazine has enlightened me on much and changed my view on a subject more than once.

Is there any greater prophetic voice calling out in the wilderness today? None that I have found.

National Geographic has been going after some HUGE issues: the diamond trade, modern slavery, global warming, the epidemic of obesity, nuclear waste. They have covered these issues well and cast a bright light on many of the world's darkest places.

In this new age--where we have been softened and too often cozened by the prevalence of opinion, attitude and style over fact--National Geographic is the one place I know I can go for hard hitting journalism and writing (and excellent images--let's not forget that here) that rises above ... Read more


title: Programming starts at 7: 00pm. No programming for ...

text: Programming starts at 7:00pm. No programming for earlier in the day. I will not renew.


title: Still have not received first issue

text: My grandson is in prison and has been waiting for the magazine but nothing yet.  I don't know who you can find out what happened.


title: Only 1 issue received

text: It's disappointing I only received  1issue. Now its says running late.<br />My daughter love the magazine but she stills pending to receive  the others.


title: Five Stars

text: Wonderful articles and recipes.  My favorite of all gluten-free titles.


title: I love this magazine!

text:
Good Housekeeping is a wholesome, clean, serious magazine.  Various topics that may be found in an issue - how to raise children, household tips, financial help, or marriage advice - suggest that the magazine is geared towards the middle-aged to the older woman.  I'm married and only in my 20s, but I still get so much out of reading the articles and advice anyway.

I absolutely love this magazine!  I was looking for a magazine with good, long articles to read, and I found this great one.  They even re-designed the look, and it's excellent.  Everything is more organized, clearly separated into their respective sections, and each page is clearly marked with the section header so I'll always know which section I'm on.

I particularly enjoy the articles about real-life triumphs and tragedies, Talk to Me by Joy Behar about relationship advice, and Peggy Post's Etiquette Dilemmas.


title: Boring!

text: Yes, I'm a fashionista & this is supposedly the bible of the fashion industry! However, I find this magazine to be really dull. It has too many pages, too many advertisements & they show nothing but the most expensive designer clothes worn by the usual anorexic stick figure models who really need to eat! The articles are also very boring. They write about alot of really rich sociallites & high-society lifestyles. There's really nothing in this magazine I can use that relates to me. You'd have to be Paris Hilton to be entertained by this publication. If I want a great fashion magazine, I get ELLE because at least the clothing they show is a liitle more affordable & they have some great articles!


title: Glamour Girl!

text: This has to be my favorite magazine because It has a little bit of everything. Cosmo is about more carnal subjects, Marie Claire has many serious subjects, Vogue is pure fashion, Allure is practically a beauty bible but Glamour has all these things & it's that versatility that I like.


title: Tabloid!

text: This is a tabloid, so most likely the stories you're reading are not true. Why would someone spend there hard earned money on a magazine that prints alot of unfounded rumors that alot times turns out to be just that, a rumor?


title: Where's the digital version!?

text: Good mag but as far as I can tell, u have to pay extra for the digital or ipad version which is lame cause other mags such as cooking light come w the digital version w ur subscription which I have not figured out yet w organic gardening. Add the digital/ ipad version w ur regular subscription and this would be great!


title: Five Stars

text: Easy peasy way to get a great magazine. Love the lowdown science-oriented aspect on beauty products, in particular.


title: Expensive, But High Quality with Very Useful Content for DIYer Like Me

text:
I have been a long time purchaser of Fine Homebuilding but, because the magazine is so attractive, I held off getting a subscription because I feared that the magazines would be damaged in the mail.  However, the per issue newsstand price of the magazine finally persuaded me to try a subscription for the savings.  With a few exceptions, receiving damaged magazines in the mail hasn't been as much a problem as I had anticipated it might be.

Magazine content:

I am a DIYer, not a professional, but I have been able to use the information in the magazine often to help me complete many of  homeowner projects...

The subscription is expensive, but the print quality of the magazine is excellent and the articles tend to be very well written.

I believe that information I have gotten from the magazine to help me with my homeowner's projects has saved me the cost of the subscription many times over.  I use the tool comparison reviews to help me make tool purchase decisions. The technique articles help me  to do better work and get better results.  The magazine has made me aware of new tools and products that have recently come to market that can make my projects easier and/or better and where to get them.

I also subscribe to its sister magazine 'Fine Woodworking'.


title: Love it!

text: I got this magazine as a kid and love that my kids love it as much as I did! Great magazine for kids with great stories that teach and inspire and interest the kids.


title: My favorite "trashy magazine"

text: I've had subscriptions to just about every woman's magazine there is over the past 8 years, but the only one I always renew is "Glamour".  It's less "how-to-catch-a-man" oriented than "Cosmo", less pseudo-hipster than "Jane" and less serious than "Marie Claire".  While it's certainly no "Ms." magazine, it has a lot of women-positive messages every issue, articles that aren't as sensationalistic and fear-mongering than most found in women's magazines, and lots of fashion and beauty tips.  I feel that "Glamour" strikes the right balance between frivolity and seriousness--for those of you who like a side of third-wave feminism with your fashion, I highly recommend it.


title: [...] Blow in cards

text:
This is a really good magazine with Solid editorial
on the world of Veggieness.

[...]

Take a look at the larger picture if you don't
believe me.

The magazine currently has blow-in cards with
a $20 subscription price WITH a pint of ice creame.


title: Elle... not like it use to be

text: Now its all WOK  Cancel my subscription.


title: Four Stars

text: eh.


title: Good for book clubs

text: This is very handy if you are a book club member.  This is a renewal of my subscription.


title: Great magazine

text: Lots of useful and helpful information.  It gives up to date methods and alerts of safety recalls.  Highly recommend it.


title: Simply not so simple...

text:
I was offered the subscription through amazon for $5 for one year, which seemed too cheap to pass up.  After reading the reviews on amazon about the magazine opting more for expensive splurge items then assisting with simplicity, I went against my better judgment and ordered anyway.  Everything the other reviewers posted was right.  In fact, in either the Aug or Sept issue which I just received, the Editor's note was exactly about that - buying a laptop bag that she knew she shouldn't have (when it gets to the point that you have to call friends to justify your purchase, that's a little ridiculous), but bought anyway, and since she's received so many compliments on it, it has increased the value for her and justified the splurge.  This is a great way to put people in an already materialistic society in a complex to ensure that they will only have confidence if what they have or wearing gets noticed and complimented by others.

Having friends who are in major debt and who do just that same thing as the editor, I would much rather applaud them for paying off what they already owe first before getting an expensive bag to nurse the weight that's on their shoulders and drive themselves into deeper debt. I would be upset if they bought the bag rather than taking care of their primary responsibility.

Having said that, I feel like most of the ads are for "reasonably" priced items, but most of the feature stories include high-priced items that I could never feel comfortable or justify buying. I do like to spend a little more on some items and a quality item can last longer, but this magazine is chock-full of suggestions that are not realistic to the everyday woman, or even a practical woman who wants to live earnestly, debt-free and do better things with her money than spend it on herself. So, then it becomes the question not of "can I afford the $400 shirt?" but, "would it be wise to spend $400 on a shirt?"

By supporting this magazine, I feel as if I am merely a gluttonous consumer being told what I have to have to live a successful and happy life.

Unfortunately, Editors of Real Simple,  it does not take "things" to make me happy, as the things I can buy never leave me satisfied.

I thought I was buying a magazine to help organize and simplify my life.  Instead the simplicity is complication and purchasing. Please take everyone else's word on this - Real Simple is a Real Shallow magazine.


title: Why Isn't This Available on Kindle?

text: I've loved this magazine since it first came out.  I didn't love it quite so much (truthfully, I hated it) after the new editor, Jacqueline Montravel, took over, but I gave it a chance.  Now it's a nice mix of shabby chic and Montravel's style, which I can put up with as long as they still keep the shabby chic articles. I just wish it was available on Kindle!


title: I had to laugh

text: when I started to read my 1st issue I was shocked to see all the ad's for senior related products. What a horrible mix of boring content and funny and sad advertising.


title: Absolutely gorgeous

text:
I have only been to Arizona one time, but this magazine takes me back there and makes me long for a return trip. Every month when I receive an issue, I am able to relax in its beauty, for this magazine has some of the most astonishing photographs of any magazine I have ever read.

But it's not just the photos that make this a good buy. Stories of local natives and their history, wonders of geology, hiking excursions and even a few pages of humor make for a well-rounded and enjoyable magazine.

A good purchase for anyone wanting to learn more about, or longing to return to, Arizona.

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title: I want my old pop-sci back

text: I had a subscription to this magazine for ten years, and loved every page of every isue- but, thay changed in the last year or so to trying to be more "hip" ;it doesent have the same information it once had, still good and shiny stuff inside, just not enough to warent twenty-four bucks for me. oh well.


title: Can't go wrong

text: Fabulous photos and interesting articles. You can't go wrong with National Geographic!


title: Love my Banjo Newsletter

text: I get so excited when I open the mailbox and there sits my Banjo Newsletter. Some months are great, some just merely good but it's the only magazine out there strictly for banjos. If you love reading about banjos and getting some good tips and good tabs this is the magazine for you.


title: An English language weekly international news analysis

text: The Guardian Weekly is a joint project between French Le Monde, US Washington Post, and British The Guardian/The Observer. These newspapers are directed towards the educated middle-class. There is a strong tendency towards analysis, sometimes quite opinionated. That said, I do like The Guardian - when I lived in the UK it was about the only newspaper that was readable. The other main newspapers either belonged to Rupert Murdoch (Times, Sun) or were dry as tinder (Independent, Telegraph). The Guardian write in an educated readable way, and depsite it is a bit left-leaning it is well balanced and concerned with real news, not gossip and sensationalism. It has a strong stance on global issues, and therefore it was obvious that it should be involved in a project like this.


title: Walks the edge between popular and learnt

text: In my opinion, this is the best Geographical magazine around. The images are as good as they come, the articles are amazing. The style is popular enough so that everyone can read them, and they have enough information so that everyone will learn something from them. Every issue has some biographical articles, some on recent expeditions, some on nature, some historical, and plenty of book reviews. In short, this magazine gives you a little bit of everything. What I really like about it is that it does not shy away from contorversial or serious issues. Here we can read about unkown genocides, natural disasters, or climate change. Geographical does dare to take sides in political issues. It is not for someone that is only out for a leisurely read. It is for us who want a leisurly way to keep informed!


title: Addictive

text: I have read this magazine for more than twenty years now, so I can say I am addicted. I like to keep informed of what is happening on the science, technology, and policy front. I find the shorter and lighthearted articles ideal for this. The reader does get a good dose of the famous British humour. I can not read the Feedback section without laughing aloud. I also respect New Scientist for daring to take political stances, and exposing bad governmental science policies, or even tackling the environmental movement if they stoop to using questionable science.


title: Very good

text: great magazine while its a little more geared towards woman i myself as a man find a lot of it can be for both. I was tired of Mens Health and quit them a few years ago and found this to be more informative as Mens seems to repeat itself all the time.


title: Great Magazine

text: This has some great recipes and more ideas that challenge bakers.  It something that I  look forward to receiving  every other month


title: I probably shouldn't have gotten it for 5th graders. ...

text: I probably shouldn't have gotten it for 5th graders.  There were cigarette ads throughout each issue!  Really could've done without those, and the conversations that followed!


title: Great

text: Love reading it.


title: good book

text: am moving to a country home and needed ideas . I like this book since it has  a lot of difference subjects form cooking to homes for sale to projects you can do.


title: good infomation

text: like the book and all the projects it has I am a novice to wood working but like to see the way things are made and the work that goes in to them


title: Good value Not so good Content

text: I thought it would have much more content.  It's like an advertisement for paint.


title: Gina

text: Nice


title: Gina

text: Perfect gift


title: Five Stars

text: This magazine is read from cover to cover.


title: Sent it to a southern family

text: Love this magizine,


title: great publication

text: great read


title: great publication

text: really nice read


title: Worth the money

text: Graphically informative


title: Five Stars

text: Great magazine, you just can't get the look and feel of this on the internet.  classic


title: Five Stars

text: Great magazine. Interesting and varied articles that cover a wide spectrum.


title: An interesting magazine to get ideas about your home

text: This is a good magazine for people looking for home decorating ideas.  We look at the pictures and comment on what we like and dislike.  This has given us a visual to shoot for.  We have a theme that we want to achieve vs the mish mash of things we bought in the past.


It's Sports Illustrated. You know what you're getting.


title: CHICAGO less impressive than before

text: Used to be a great mag. Now the city has changed a lot and I am not as interested in it as during the good old days.


title: INSTYLE IS THE "GO TO" MAG FOR LADIES WANTING TO IMPRESS

text: Has always been one of my fave magazines. One of the most complete mags out there. I don't wear or use anything in the articles or ads, but it's fun to look at.


title: CITY OF NOSTALGIA

text: GREAT reading for people who live in Boston and want to know what is going on locally. I used to subscribe to it to live vicariously through the people and their articles. It's one of my favorite cities. But then, I grew up. Love it!


title: THEY'VE CHANGED, BUT THEY ARE STILL WORTH READING!

text: Lifetime of great reading from this icon of magazines. Although they have changed with the times, the changes have been for good.


title: DO IT FOR YOUR SELF!

text: Good tips. If you are  hopeful, in this new year that you are going to get yourself together. A one-year subscription might do the trick.


title: NATGEO - just great!

text: Kids love to read this magazine, fun colorful and right at their reading skills;-)


title: Sweet

text: Its Sunset of course its awesome


title: Too fancy for the average home cook. I wouldn't ...

text: Too fancy for the average home cook. I wouldn't really make anything in here, but it gives a decent amount of inspiration.


title: Five Stars

text: Got mine this week


title: OUT/Advocate Ed.

text: If you enjoy gay news, fashion, gossip and reviews than order the OUT/Advocate Combo. I've been a reader for years of both publications and they both get better and better each year.<br />-dop


title: "The Land  of Enchantment"

text:
Love it!
Can't wait to spend a month visiting in the fall.
I will be well informed.


title: Five Stars

text: Love Food Network magazine! Articles are interesting and recipes are great!


glad they got back to listing all the channels, i cannot do with out my tv guide, as tv is our entertainment at our age


title: ham rack

text: it wa ust what i was looking for... I remember my DAD having one back in the 50's<br />it is just like it.. I have been looking for one for years.. Amazon you have everything.. thank you


title: Awesome magazine at a great Amazon price

text: The O magazine is great and Amazon offered a great deal.  Great articles, pictures and enjoyable to read.


title: Five Stars

text: Great magazine


title: The ONE magazine to have!

text: Pricey, funny, sarcastic but real reviews with real riders. Shamefully makes USA bike magazines look like comic books. Great quality and hard to put down.


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent writing!


title: Good buy

text: I love this book. Most of the time it has great recipes


title: Prank

text: I got a mini subscription for my coworker for only $.99 and he got 4 issue's. He had no clue why they just kept coming it was fabulous. I highly recommend that anyone just picks a normal magazine that doesn't fit with someone and just order it. The joke lasts months and months.


title: world war ii history

text: I have been reading this magazine for years and look forward to each new issue.  It is satisfying to read new slants on battles which took place many years ago and to learn the background of important WW II figures.


title: Recommend.Better now,but sometimes doesn't make sense.One problem IS capitalizing THE least important OR italics OR worse,bold.

text:
Excellent research and products, but ridiculous writing.
Sometimes it just doesn't make sense. But usually the problem IS capitalizing THE least important words, NOT TO mention italics AND underline AND bold. I imagine online THEY use lots OF  **word** stuff too.
Even when it's the IMPORTANT WORDS that are emphasized, it's a PAIN IN THE NECK!

Oh well, it used to be much worse. Things just didn't compute, so to speak.

Hey Life extension, I'm a great copy editor. I work cheap part time, and I don't need benefits!
Contact me at lifext.review@harmless.fastmail.fm

Recommend.


title: The Bible for mid-century ranch homes.

text: The source book for all owners & fans of mid-century ranches. Th advertisements alone are worth the price of a subscription.


title: My kid loves them!

text: My 2 yr old loves these books. I ordered here instead of through highlights because its easier with a couple clicks then setting up account.  Wipe able, durable for chewing on, great little stories and on point with age group. Took a month to receive our first book.


title: Even useful to a handyman!!!

text: I bought this for a handyman and he laughed at me when he got his first one, now he realizes that there was alot of things he could do to save time and money on jobs!!!


title: USA TODAY THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER

text: USA TODAY: IF YOU LIKE TO SEE ALL THE UP TO DATE NEWS NATIONALY AND ALL THE  IMPORTANT NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, THIS IS THE NEWS PAPER YOU NEED. I LOOK FORWARD TO READING IT EVERY DAY.--"PETE"


Have subscribed to Hola for several years.  Use the subscription to work on my Spanish.  The Spanish in this magazine is very literate with wonderful examples of correct Spanish grammar.  Plus this magazine is fun to read with many photos.


title: Five Stars

text: great magazine fast delivery


title: >^..^< Best cat magazine ever!

text: I love this magazine.  Not only does it include cat photos and facts, it includes funny stories, comics, and unique kitty products!  This makes a great gift for all cat lovers!


title: Five Stars

text: Just the right balance of secularism with in depth biblically applicable thought - though they don't say so.


title: Love this Magazine

text: Like to view painted skies, like to see the faces of people captured on the canvas, love to view mountains and hills, valleys and waterways?  Want to look at someone's studio, see what makes an artist tick, and how they do the magic they do?  This magazine has it all.  I have copies of Southwest Art from years ago and still find something different when I sit on the floor and go through them.  What a treasure!!


title: Fantastic Art Book

text: Dang!  Only comes out four times a year.  I read it from cover to cover in the first hour or so and then have to wait.  No, I just add it all the others and use it as a great reference book.


title: Another Great Quilting Magazine

text: Quilter's Newsletter is another great favorite of mine.  The quilt designs are always beautiful.  The magazine offers a great deal of information as well.


title: Review-ER

text: I love this product!!! It is very educational and fun to read at the same time!! There are lots of advertisement pages in it, but that must be how they are able to pay for it. Overall I'm very happy!


title: Review-ER

text: I got this for my little sister and she loves it! She is learning so much from it and having fun too!


title: Review-ER

text: I love this!!!! I get it on time so I'm very happy! I love getting this through amazon!! I recomend this to everyone!


title: Review-ER

text: I love getting these almost as much as my little brother!! Its a little slow when it comes to getting them but I still give it a 5.


title: Love this maazine

text: After a while of making scrapbook pages, you sometimes have a mind block and need new idea. The how-to information is great. Love to look through it for new ideas and tools. I don't copy the entire pages, for instance I noticed that one illustrated page had cut along the pattern of the paper and made a cute border. Someone wanted to know what to do with left over letters that didn't spell a word. They made a cute bottom border with them overlapping each other.


title: Clean Eating

text: I gave this as a gift, but I occasionally pick it up for myself.  The recipes are great, relatively simple ingredients, simple tastes.  Just the kind of food I've been craving!


The daily readings are a perfect way to start your day. The daily Mass is included. You get a new book each month. It is the perfect book to have with you daily. It is how I start my day.


title: Five Stars

text: great


title: You need to pay attention to when they will start delivering

text: You need to pay attention to the date that is says they will start delivering. I bought this as a gift, but it's one that won't start giving until MONTHS later.


title: Good, but not complete.

text: It is very good magzine for kids to read. I have nothing to complain except for missing two issues(Jan&May2019). And I dont have the saler's information anymore  after several months.


title: Miss the old format

text: I subscribed back in the late 80's.  Back then it was aimed at 'average' farm families.  There were no giant decorator 'country style' homes, just everyday women showing off their kitchens, gardens, kids, grandkids.  The editor, Ann, did a workday each issue, where she joined a farm family in a day of work in their farm business.  There was a contest to win a housecleaning service for a day, makeovers for regular people done by their local hair salons.  Now it's 'country lifestyle' with expensive decor, designer clothes, and custom homes.  And there are too many ads.  Basically, it's lost the personal touch that made it relatable.


title: Pack your bag!

text: Interesting both for the "armchair traveler" and for tips and ideas for future destinations. Covers once-in-lifetime destinations as well as nearby finds.


title: Five Stars

text: good


title: very informative

text: I have only received two issues but I am pleased with the tips on home repair and projects.


title: all screwed up

text: I renewed through Amazon and understood that the magazine had record of it, but a current issue was delayed and I did not receive it just before leaving the country for two weeks.  When I returned I discovered that the delay was due to the fact that a cover stating "Only One Month to Go" had been plastered over the magazine.  When I called the magazine, they said the payment had been deleted.  By this time the price I was paying Amazon was the same as that offered by The New Yorker, so next year I will renew it through the magazine.


title: Excellent Writing

text: Reading the New Yorker validates my status as an adult.  Interesting stories, poems, essays, cartoons, and articles keep you informed and well-read.


title: Beautiful Designs

text: Inspiring designs and locations. The lives of property owners are so interesting!


title: Fake

text: It's Fake news. Dont believe what they write.  I fact check there stories and doesnt match up.


title: Ridiculously stupid

text: All that needs to be said.


title: Great content, horrible customer service

text: Bought a deal for a subscript to Draft.  Great articles and information for us beer drinkers and lovers.  I found beer after beer and bar after bar to try out and loved that.  I was moving out of state and have been trying to get ahold of someone to change my address since last year August.  I paid good money for these magazines and can't believe that I couldn't get anyone to respond to get this handled.  Have a great product doesn't excuse you from giving good customer service to the people purchasing said product.  Get it together Draft Mag!


title: Best magazine in the English language!

text: Best weekly magazine out there! Well written and exhaustingly researched articles. Impeccable sources and fact-based journalism. Also great review of arts, culture, politics, and science. Comics are the cherry on top!


title: Best, unbiased newsweekly out there!

text: Great summary of the weekly news, entertainment, cultural and business events! Non-biased and presents all sides of major issues. I’ve enjoyed the magazine for many years


title: Well respected news weekly

text: One of the best and most well-researched and informative magazines in publication. Reason, science, finance, current events/politics and technology in a wonderful weekly package!


title: Outstanding source of cutting-edge technology news.

text:
IEEE Spectrum is the "general interest" publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, one of the largest, if not the largest, professional organization devoted to advancement of technology.

The magazine often features articles describing the promises and risks of emerging technologies long before they come to the attention of other news organizations. I specifically remember learning, many years ago, about the promise of TIVO's digital VCR's from Spectrum long before most of my technical savvy friends had even a hint that the technology was poised for prime time.

Many articles, such as recent ones on electric vehicles and solar energy, highlight their advantages and disadvantages without burying them in political side-speak.  For example, Spectrum highlighted the role a large fleet of electric vehicles could have on stabilizing the electric power grid in the event of momentary power losses; few news organizations are examining electric cars as part of a larger energy storage and distribution system.

It is written at a level that should be easily understood by individuals with college level science education; there are no lines of equations or obtuse scientific terms.  I highly recommend it to individuals seeking to stay informed on how technology is likely to impact how we live and where we make money.


title: Wired Magazine

text: It is a excellent way to keep up with the latest digital news


title: Great Magazine

text: Must read for dirt bikes.


title: Never Received 11 issues

text: This used to be a weekly magazine, now it is once a month.  I signed up for six months  11 issues assuming that they went to every two weeks received a total of 6.


title: Favorite Magazine

text: Love this magazine! Discovered I wasn’t reading any other magazines so cancelled the other subscriptions in favor of Real Simple.


title: Delightful publication

text: O is a wonderful magazine filled with entertaining and informative content. Her interviews are insightful. Still love the feel of paper in my hands and physically turning pages.


title: Attention science nerds!!!

text: I've been reading Discover for many years and plan to continue for many more. The exceptional thing about this publication is the breath of scientific subjects it covers while being written on a level that is understandable to most. If you like science,  you will love Discover. Also recommend it as a good resource for parents who want to encourage children to explore the wonders of science.


title: Read REAL news

text: I love this magazine!!! The articles are very insightful and the cartoons delightful.  I especially enjoy the satire piece. In this time of "fake" news claims it's great to know I have a reliable source for information.  One of my favorite magazines!!!!


title: Misleading Bull

text: This was originally a great deal until they decided to auto renew me at 3 times the price I originally paid. This what this publication chooses to do in the middle of a pandemic. I'm extremely upset.


title: Great Cruising magazine

text: I find it an excellent mix of how to DIY repairs and reporting on great crusing destinations.<br />You should try it.


title: I have had a Year's subscription to this magazine and ...

text: I have had a Year's subscription to this magazine and seldom use the recipes because they are lengthy and require a long shopping list of items we don't have on hand.


title: Solid Unbiased Information, Advice, and Reference Studies

text: I'm in my mid thirties and reading this magazine, I have to admit, makes me feel old.  I'm not sure if it's because the content is targeted to older readers, or if it's presented in a dour manner.  Consumer Reports knows how to publish unbiased facts, and this publication lives up to that reputation - but combining cold hard facts and personal health is, I don't know, worrisome.  I can't say that I get excited about reading this magazine, but I'll continue to subscribe to it so that my wife and I, as well as our older parents can benefit from the many valuable articles and studies.  The primary weakness of this magazine is the diminutive amount of content.  The magazine is much shorter than other Consumer Reports publications, but priced similarly.  It takes me less than 30 minutes to read it cover-to-cover each month.


title: You will enjoy

text: Beautiful magazine!


title: Long-time PROUD subscriber.

text: I've been a Teen Vogue subscriber since I was 16 years-old. I'm well into my 20s now, & I'm more proud than ever to be a subscriber. TV's content is fresh, focused, & fundamental in today's new media world, no matter if the topic is politics or polka dots. I highly recommend this publication & am an appreciative, devout reader.


title: Really good recipes

text: When I was going through my old cooking magazines a few years ago before a major move to another state, I found to my surprise that the recipes I most wanted to keep were in Bon Appetit. Although I also enjoyed reading Gourmet, I realized that I had cooked relatively few of the recipes in that magazine. I am ready to make another magazine purge, and I expect the same thing to happen. Gourmet is fun and interesting, but Bon Appetit is a keeper.


title: Has Made a Comeback

text:
I lost interest in the magazine during the Tina Brown era. Now I find that the magazine has improved a great deal under it's current staff. The only problem I have is in keeping up with reading every issue.
  Recent articles I've enjoyed range from the humor of David Sedaris (his memoir centered around a nasty little neighbor girl was hilarious) to the magazine's famous far-flung, quirky reportage (Mark Singer's June 30th article on Worm Farming in Oklahoma was a great example of what I'm talking about).
One thing I'm upset about, however, is that in the past couple weeks, the ad pages have outnumbered the article pages. Plus, they include scent samples that actually give me a headache. If I want ads and perfume, I'll go buy a copy of Vanity Fair. Please, New Yorker, stick to what you do best!
  The cover art is still the best in the business and the cartoons keep rolling right along like the Hudson.
 5 stars without the ads.
BEK


title: just the best

text: I read this cover to cover every week. Nothing is more fun for me than pulling the week's issue out of the mailbox and flipping through the issue to look at the cartoons and the "back page." The nonfiction is well-written and insightful; the fiction is always top-notch; and if you live near NY, this is a great reference for local entertainment and the arts


title: The "Go To " Sci Fi  Magazine

text:
Asimov's science fiction magazine is one of the premier sources of new short story and novella length science fiction. It also has the occasional serialized novel. Having been introduced to science fiction through Isaac Asimov's own short story anthologies back in the 70's I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed the return to the short story format after many years of "blockbuster novels". The magazine consistently showcases the best new talent. It also has a stable of veteran, commercially successful, writers that use the magazine as a vehicle to return to their roots. Notables such as Michael Swanwick, James Patrick Kelly, Kage Baker, and Tom Purdom to name a few. Asimov's seems to always have nominees in the yearly Nebula and Hugo awards for science fiction.
  Most stories are "Social Science Fiction" in which a loose future backdrop is used to tell a character based story with an eventual universal truism revealed. It is rare to find a "Hard Science Fiction" story in which the extrapolation of known science into a future setting plays a critical role in the climax and conclusion of the story. Stories from the early writings of Larry Niven are good examples of such stories. This is a forgivable lapse as most editors would tell you that they would love to see more hard science submissions.
  The magazine also boasts one of the best editorial sections penned by acclaimed author Robert Silverberg. He covers topics ranging from strict science to historical recollections of the science fiction genre. He has also reintroduced many readers to lost stories and authors such as Cordwainer Smith with great biographical pieces.
They also have Poems; no offense Mr. Haldeman.


title: Five Stars

text: Interesting stories - gift subscription for an incarcerated friend.


title: Awesome pulp!

text: If you are a railfan, this is for you!!!


title: Good, but somewhat misleading

text:
Pros:
1. You can learn a lot about how to fix things around the house. I don't really need this, since I been fixing things up since I was just a kid, but the review is worthwhile, I guess.
2. Lots of information on new tools and gadgets and stuff. If you want to read about somebody else testing things instead of being a man and testing them yourself, I guess this is good enough.
3. You can stick a copy in your back pocket when you cruise the handyman bars. To find a handyman. You know, to help you take care of things at home? A man you can call when you've got wood and you need a good nailing or drilling or a screw, maybe. What did you think I meant? You people are perverts.

Cons:
1. Lots of ads. It's almost like it is a paper mall full of people trying to sell you stuff.
2. Very few, if any, pictures of handymen. The few they have rarely show any skin on men that usually have a surplus of it, and not a single money shot. Most of the pictures are of tools, and not the fun kind.

It's probably best if you buy a copy somewhere and look at it first.


title: Greatly disappointed.

text: This magazine consists more of ads than articles. Greatly disappointed.


title: Two Stars

text: Odd mixture of smugness, preachiness, and depression.


title: Like the new format

text:
I ordered this and it seemed to take a while to get the first magazine... Then when it showed up I got two the same day. I was pleasantly surprised to see that MF had changed their format and I had a chance to read the first and second issues. They are full of information and have a good division between the sound bite articles and articles that go into a good depth on a person or health issue.

Overall a good read if you take the time to read it.


title: Great Book for  intermediate and advanced Bassists

text: As a bass player, I was looking for a bass magazine that had great articles, interviews and had a variety of good songs to learn. Well Bass player is that magazine, with interviews with players like Boosty Collins, Verdine White and Geddy Lee and with lessons on techinque and learning songs in a variety of genres (something that past bass mags never did) it is a great buy for your buck.


title: As Aimless as the Music scene it (purportedly) covers

text: Rolling Stone has a big, fat, schizophrenic problem--they still want to be the "rebel" magazine, and pretend rock and roll is still "dangerous" like it was when they first began waaaay back when.  Problem is, rock is no longer a dominant force in the world and hasn't been "dangerous" in over 20 years. On the other hand, they want to be mainstream as well. In the 70s and 80s, they were mostly able to avoid the arena-rock groups and hair-metal bands, but not now--now they can't put Britney and N'sync on the cover enough. And since being taken over by the same guy who runs Maxim, look for ever more cheesecake to splatter on the cover (Is there any other reason to put a Jennifer Love Hewitt or Asia Argento on the cover?)  I first got the hint that the mag was going downhill when the Spice Girls made the cover five years ago; when they gave Mick Jagger's solo record 5-stars last year, that clenched it. I give it two stars because it's still Ok to glance at the news items in the front and the record reviews in the back but the middle of mag is not worth your money.


title: Interesting, easy reading, kids like shorter stories

text: Lots of interesting information.  Bought for the little people who come to my house.  The 10 year old literally read the magazine out loud to everyone, smaller kids all the way to grandparents enjoyed!


title: Four Stars

text: great!!


title: Will never say Adios to this magazine!!

text:
Cowboys and Indians is one of the delights in my life.  I anxiously await each magazine and the wonderment inside.  Delightfully educational, professionally presented - I learn from each articles and share the equisite advertisements with my friends.  I have given this magazine as gift subscriptions to friends who also enjoy the history, the Now and preservation of the West.  Thank you for hours of enjoyment!!
Mrs. Lynne Beaird
Catawba, NC


title: Not Useful Anymore

text:
The people at Consumer Reports have really dumbed the magazine down since their recent make-over. It's almost impossible to find useful, relevant information anymore. The magazine is poorly organized and cluttered with useless print and images.

If you have time to kill, you might find an interesting tidbit here or there. But useful, money-saving information that is easy to find? Forget it!

Consumer Reports has evolved into another fluffy entertainment magazine.

If you want to review a product, do it on Amazon.com. You get free reviews. You may have to read a number of reviews to get the gist of what people like or dislike about a product, but you might get suggestions about something that may be better or have different advantages. Another wonderful thing about reading Amazon's reviews is that Amazon.com handles a vast number of products -- and even services.


title: and always good. I do wish they would offer a book ...

text: My bedtime indulgence, and always good.  I do wish they would offer a book full of only one-pagers though for the ease of handling in bed.  They have, however, increased the number of one-page puzzles, so I'm pleased with that.


title: Liberal slanted news

text: It is OK if you are looking for a leftist viewpoint.  Not so great if you are looking for balanced coverage.  I cancelled early because I am more interested in news than opinion.


title: Fun reading

text: Magazine covers a variety of subjects. Short articles.


title: Five Stars

text: very good.


title: Five Stars

text: Very good.


title: Knowledge through Reading

text: Best magazine I receive!


title: Sad Waste Of My Money

text:
We cancelled the Charlotte Observer to get this low on substance and old news. I'm a native Brit and thought I would be getting something akin to the British version of the Guardian

This is really poor and a regrettable purchase by me.

Please don't take into account the rave reviews here these people must not now about the news online.....

Ah well 52 weeks and I'll be unsubbed.....

David


title: Seen Better Days

text:
I subscribed to this mag years ago and the standard is dropping sadly with opinionated cookie cutter "DJ Advice"

Best bet? Join an online forum and ask questions


title: Four Stars

text: Short but very interest articles.  Find many things that interest me.  Always on top.


title: Bullseye on Entertainment

text: Entertainment Weekly arrives regularly on Friday afternoon and is always a joy.  The movie reviews warn me or encourage me... The television guides often direct me to programs I was unaware of.  The previews are fantastic and the book reviews usually pretty solid.  I could care less about the music stuff, but the magazine is informative and fun.


title: Enjoy reading this every month and all the tips and ...

text: Enjoy reading this every month and all the tips and tricks. My husband and I always enjoy reading “how bad is it” segment together.


title: Nice to remember certain things

text: Not what I expected. It is really a magazine which has stories of people remembering certain thngs as they were growing up...like being a newspaper boy, going to a carnival, going to newly opened theme parks, etc. It is worth getting a subscription once, but you may be inclined not to renew it. It is shallow but still enjoyable.


title: Five Stars

text: grand kids LOVE it


title: Lots of Advertising!

text: A way to feed you advertising. I would pay triple what this magazine costs if it had no ads. But then it might only be 7 pages long...<br />Update: just received my 3rd magazine in 5 months. The first 2 arrived within weeks of each other. Very, very few recipes. Tons of advertising. Wish I could find a food magazine that doesn’t advertise pharmaceuticals.


title: Outdated and stale

text: Way left, no more variety. An infantile outlet for snowflakes


title: Five Stars

text: love it


title: Five Stars

text: ITEM BETTER THAN DESCRIBED A+A+A+A+A+


title: Has Morphed into the Irrelevant

text: I have been a subscriber since edition #1 when Cooks Illustrated first came out. Back then, the magazine, along with its associated spinoffs) was singularly focused on figuring out the BEST way to make a popular dish and often went thru an extensive testing process to optimize ingredients, equipment and the resulting flavors—with a small, but telling bias towards East Coast ingredients and tastes (e.g. Bell & Evans chickens). Today, they are mostly about money. While they still test, it's now extreme (and often very foreign) dishes with exotic ingredients that can only be found online or at ultra-specialty food stores. Anyone care for: Guanimes Con Balcalo, Jajangmyeon or Tiropita (all from one recent edition)—for which, all the main ingredients are unavailable locally unless you happen to shop that one, isolated specialty store in New York or Boston. The rub here being: how do you even know you want to eat this stuff as these recipes are so esoteric and made with such exotic ingredients that you have never experienced or even seen in the store and must be hunted down thru such arcane sources the recipes and ingredients might as well come from the moon. Now granted, we all like to try something new every now and then, and I am sure the crew at ATK and Cooks Ill would proclaim, "we've already done that, years ago" but the original idea behind the magazine was to "foolproof" popular dishes so that mere humans could reliably make them - yet using these recipes, it is still easy to overcook the $20 steak and leave it with a flabby, grey "crust." So, the mission is still out there. The goal has yet to be achieved for all but the most accomplished cooks but Cooks Illustrated has moved on. Go find your salt cod and chunjang (korean black bean paste) and spend the weekend gathering the ingredients and whipping up a dish you have never even heard of, cannot spell and don't know you even like and knock yourself out. While definitely "interesting" and perhaps even stimulating, learning how to cook the 1% of exotic dishes from around the world (and perhaps the "moon") leaves us in the dark on the 99% of dishes the magazine was originally designed to help us succeed with. A disappointing and down spiraling trip into the esoterically irrelevant. I just want to successfully make a great Kung Poa Chicken or Beef Bourguignon, not something an Emperor  might be surprised by for his or her birthday feast.


title: Five Stars

text: favoIrite magazine I have always loved this magazine . but with the covid in full swing I never received all my issues.  I just reordered for 2022, but didn't get all of my 2021 issues.  Can anything be done?


title: Bird & Blooms

text: I love my birds!!  This is a great magazine!!


title: Interesting, thoughtful articles for kids who are interested and willing

text:
My elementary age kids are just beginning to understand the larger scope of the world and human knowledge. While in the process of looking for good magazines about current events I came across Ask, Muse and Dig. I signed up for a subscription to Ask in hopes that it would help my kids get that better understanding of the world of ideas. We've been quite pleased with it.

In that process of looking for good kids magazines we tried out a bunch of them, and got subscriptions to most. Here's my quick quick rundown

Kids Discover: heavy on pictures, light on words. The articles tend to be little snippets and factoids without context or much explanation.
National Geographic Kids: heavy on pictures, light on the words. Articles are a bit more in depth than Kids Discover.
Time for Kids: Thin and a bit flimsy, but comes frequently (every two weeks?) and covers major current events pretty well. Different versions are available for different ages. Order it from the Time for Kids web site since Amazon doesn't seem to carry it.
Dig: In depth interesting articles addressing history and society under the guise of archeology. Probably best for late elementary and middle school, and/or more thoughtful kids.
Ask and Muse: In depth interesting articles addressing all sorts of thoughtful topics. Probably best for late elementary and middle school, and/or more thoughtful kids.


title: Great magazine. Explains history and society by way of archeology

text:
My elementary age kids are just beginning to understand the larger scope of the world and human history. While in the process of looking for good magazines about current events I came across Dig. I signed up for a subscription in hopes that it would help my kids get that better understanding of the world. We've been quite pleased with it.

In that process of looking for good kids magazines we tried out a bunch of them, and got subscriptions to most. Here's my quick quick rundown

Kids Discover: heavy on pictures, light on words. The articles tend to be little snippets and factoids without context or much explanation.
National Geographic Kids: heavy on the pictures, light on the words. Articles are a bit more in depth than Kids Discover.
Time for Kids: Thin and a bit flimsy, but comes frequently (every two weeks?) and covers major current events pretty well. Different versions are available for different ages. Order it from the Time for Kids web site since Amazon doesn't seem to carry it.
Ask and Muse: In depth interesting articles addressing all sorts of thoughtful topics. Probably best for middle school and/or more thoughtful kids.
Dig: In depth interesting articles addressing history under the guise of archeology. Probably best for late elementary and middle school, and/or more thoughtful kids.


title: Uncle Mike Loves you and wants you to be safe and healthy

text:
Thank God for Hollywood , after the 9/11 workers poisonings where Mike Famously strolled through ground zero and the air declared the air quality fine and basically killed 1000s he needed an image makeover.. How could he convince New Yorkers he cared and was not a poisoner.. ? Ban Smoking yes thats it.. Mike Bloomberg doesnt want you to get sick from polluted air or smoking so he passed a law.te

The reason Mike Bloomberg looks like hero while covering up 911 and robbing 1 Billion per year is creating an immage with Transffat and slurping sodas .. So when you think of Mike Bloomberg you think of your Mom taking care of you making sure you eat right..

And Hey its just Mom Lookng through your pockets when you little brown brother gets stopped and frisked..  When Sean Bell was executed , we forgave Mom casue ok sometimes moms make mistakes and sometimes mom hurt us but she also loves us so we forgive her

Anyone Know who the Image consulatant was who created this winning fake Mike Bloomberg?  Martin Mclaughlins .. guy probably right
or Speilberg over drinks about Bloomberg 1

Well we all fell for it just like Obama we fall for , worst Gun lobby record of all presidents but Brarack hates gun violence only not as much as he hates loosing post election speaking engangements and book deals

Whenever you think you like a politication , remmber there is some guy in Hollywood laughing his butt off when he hears you so say it..


title: Great magazine!

text: Ordered this for my 13 year old son and husband.  My son especially loves it and starts reading the second it comes in the mail!  Will definitely renew this subscription!


title: Love it

text: If you love country decor and more this is the magazine for you. I love looking at all the country decor ideas  and reading the articles about people that have moved into country homes and restored them. It's a fun relaxing read!


title: better than rolling stone, occasionally insightful, but...

text: Every now and then Spin offers some high quality rock criticism.  I, too, found it's 90 greatest albums of the '90s issue to be very good... yet so many of the artists they covered in that list go largely unnoticed in the magazine's regular issues, or end up buried beneath a lot of sub-par not music related articles and advertising.<br />If you are looking for a higher quality magazine of music criticism and rock journalism, I'd suggest seeking out some of the lower circulation, genre-specific magazines out there.  Spin caters too much to evaluating pop trends and pushing bands that are already popular for my taste.  If the subscription price is cheap enough and you just want something to browse, then go for it.  But if you really want a quality music magazine, you'll have to look a little harder at your local bookstore, there are some out there.


title: Great magazine for the kids

text: Gave thiis magazine to my older grandchildren when they were younger for many years . Now giving it to  to new younger grandchildren. They have all loved it


title: Don't waste your money

text: Don't waste your money.  I subscribed for both the digital and print, received a confirmation email. Tried to log into their app that they recommend  but I needed an account code (which was not included in my subscription notification email), TRIED to get it from my online account but the online account doesn't show me as having a subscription, plenty of ads for me to subscribe though...tried using the little drop down menu for "my account" so I could log out and log back in...the drop down doesn't work...it's stuck on "my account" with zero ability to do anything from it  (Yes I shut down & restarted my device thinking it's my equipment 😁). The whole webpage is one giant ad.  If I would have known I was giving them money for a morning full of frustration, I would have gladly given that money to someone else who at the very least know how to make a drop down button work.


title: Five Stars

text: Quick renewal.


title: Goo read - always

text: Been reading Reader's Digest for 51 years.  Not about to stop now.


Magazine that publishes government lies and propaganda as if they were fact


title: Unabashedly Christian commentary on culture and life in the 21st century

text: In addition to Touchstone, I subscribe to the following journals: First Things, The New Criterion, Claremont Review of Books, and Weekly Standard.  So I'm a conservative reader that appreciates mental rigor.  Touchstone is not a political publication like my other subscriptions, but its the only publication I read cover-to-cover (FT and TNC aren't officially political either, but they are much more political than Touchstone).  Touchstone is far more accessible than First Things and yet it sacrifices none of the depth.  Touchstone reminds me of something C.S. Lewis told a group of seminary students once.  He said they should have their final papers read by enlisted personnel in the Royal Air Force, and if those guys couldn't tell them what their papers were about then they should rewrite them.  Lewis said that if your writing can't be understood by the common man then you probably don't understand all that well yourself.  Touchstone is intelligent without being heady or grandiose.  Most of it's articles are written by academics, but no one would use "academic" to describe Touchstone.  TS calls itself "A Journal of Mere Christianity" for good reason (it's a reference to Lewis' book Mere Christianity).


title: Solid Mag

text: Nice Playstation only magazine with very little fanboy articles.  Articles and reviews are generally right on.


title: Best Magazine I have Ever Subscribed To

text:
The people at Cooks Illustrated have figured out how to put together a good and informative cooking magazine.  It is a thin magazine because there are no ads.
Most cooking & baking magazines are horrible because they are littered with countless ads and huge pretty pictures of cakes they don't tell you how to bake.
This magazine is a must have for any serious cook.  These people put a lot of work into their magazine.


title: Did not like the auto-renewal

text: This magazine was ok. I thought that it would provide more insight on how to get a business started and all it did was show people that ran successful businesses. I had to cancel it, because the subscription auto renews.


title: ARTS and CRAFTS at its best

text: Love this magazine as it brings in the arts and crafts style for house design; furniture; and almost everything that surrounds you. Beautiful magazine!


title: Still in print!

text: Great magazine.


title: Last print editions.

text: Will NOT be renewing my sub. Was bad enough when they went to a "quarterly publication" instead of the expected (and paid for) monthly. But now they've printed their last print edition.


title: Founded in 1912

text: Poetry Magazine from Chicago has been a fixture in the realm of American literature. It's the THE best and the least trendy, slick, topical publication on the market. There are works in all forms in all concerns and modes of expression plus terrific reviews as well as thought provoking essays. For the best deal on subscriptions, try to hold back until holiday time when they offer reduced prices through their website. If you love good literature treat yourself to these higher standards.


title: as expected

text: As expected. Very good mobile format


title: Excellent

text: Clear writing and thoughtful articles - great reading for anyone interested in contemporary Catholic thinking!


title: Beautiful Pictures!

text: What else could you do to this magazine to make it better?  Nothing!  It's one of those perfect works of art that just happens to be a magazine.<br />The paper it's printed on, the photos, the articles. All perfect. I love the way it feels....It's a winner and also a collectible. Just can't say enough about it.


title: Three Stars

text: Not as good as it used to be...


title: The name Catster sums up the tone of the magazine

text: Ok. It's the only cat magazine out there right now but I have to say that I am enjoying it. It could be a little more -- serious -- and less cutesy but I dunno, I like reading it. It kind of makes me look at my cat in a different way. Some of the quizzes although fun to take are more than that. You start to realize your cat's personality.<br />The subscription started coming really quickly which I appreciate. I ordered some other magazines at the same time & I still have yet to receive the 1st issue of the others. .


title: Five Stars

text: Loved it


title: NOT THE ABSOLUTE MAGAZINE

text: No doubt, this magazine has something to offer when it comes to showing off equipment, and that would be one reason that I would buy it. As far as equipment reviews, they have sold out long a go to the advertisers.


title: Tour the World from Your Living Room

text: I learned to dream in from of the pages of this magazine.  Every month I am transported to foreign lands.  The stories are interesting, the photography unparalleled.


title: My Favorite Photography Magazine

text: Equipment,technology, technique and clothing: this magazine has it all.  Any tip that helps the amateur photographer capture and improve his or her scenic, travel and wildlife images can be found within its monthly pages.


title: Political and not funny any more

text: Growing up, RD was a staple of literary genius. I think all the retirees are rolling over in their graves after what RD has become. It's boring, they make grammatical errors (or should I say *error's* since they misuse said sky comma all the time now), and worst of all they are POLITICAL. So sad.


title: I am reminded why I cancelled it

text: This was a great magazine in the day but now it's thinned out and getting political. No thanks!


title: Forgot what I ordered

text: Thought this was a monthly magazine. Buyer receivies one mag every 3 months. Every three months one can almost forget they ordered the magazine.


title: Magazine

text: Nice articles


title: been reading since the 80's

text: great when your stuck in a doctor's office  waiting to be seen (short stories ) helps  you pass the time


title: Five Stars

text: LOVE THIS MAG!!


title: disappointed

text: I was looking for articles about compassion and empathy and how to incorporate those things into ones life.  Unfortunately I often came across politically driven commentary in the midst of these articles - it was very discordant and made me ponder on the nature of hypocrisy.  I will be looking for other true sources of the light.


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent all the way around. I would buy from them again. Very satisfied overall.


title: A Decent Magazine

text: The act of skeptical inquiry in and of itself primarily results in what is often called "debunking." As a citizen living in country of people hoodwinked into beleiveing that witches, unicorns,and bigfoot all exist relative to their fairy tale roots, this magazine serves as a refreshing antidote. Most often you will find that those who are displeased with the magazine are those who want to read "serious inquiry" into X Files type events that are invariably a hoax. If someone wants to believe in the Loch Ness Monster or bleeding statues; that is their perogative. But they shouldn't be surprised when skeptical inquiry results in a less than favorable verdict for their pet-fantasies. For those that are interested in reading the best magazine of skeptical/rational inquiry outside of a straight science magazine; enjoy this one.


title: Once Great, Now Largely Irrelevant

text:
There was a time when computer enthusiasts could be expected to await each new issue of PC World as a child anticipates Christmas morning. But now the magazine (and many of its ilk) are rendered obsolete by online replacements full of up-to-the-second information and realtime interaction with readers (for what it's worth). What's left of this publication (and its companion website) is borderline tabloid quality scribblings from out of touch geriatrics who can't let go of their Wordperfect 5.1 systems and fresh, clueless pups who have grown up never having touched a command line interface, completely lacking any context.

PC World will hopefully soon enjoy a well earned retirement and sip cocktails with Byte, Antic, and AmigaWorld at The Has-Beens Club by the pool.

Save your money and buy a latte with breakfast every morning instead.


title: My Favorite

text: I have been a subscriber for most years since 1980 and treasure each copy because they never grow old.  I even enjoy the advertisements and have referred to them a lot. Keep up the good work! I am 77 years old and still grow a fairly large garden with most of the vegetables we eat and enjoy it very much.


title: Great for kids

text: My granddaughters love getting magazines in the mail.


title: A bit cerebral and pretentious

text:
I'm afraid I can't say much to recommend Automobile unless, like me, you're hopelessly addicted to cars and will read almost anything about them.

Since it's inception, Automobile has always struck me as a bit snobbish and self-satisfied. This, despite not being very interesting. Their mantra has been "No boring cars!," yet it's usually a somewhat boring magazine.

They have some really great (and funny) editorials, and tend to be more honestly critical of cars than other mags, so for that they get 2 stars. But if you want to read great car reviews, this isn't for you. They're always very short, and comparison tests are given woefully inadequate space.

In many ways that's another of Automobile's problems - it's too small.

My overall impression over the years is that they'd really like to be England's CAR magazine, and even share writers (mainly George Kacher), but just aren't that good.

****Update on 12/20/2011****

I'd like to reiterate the last sentence of my original review:  They would *like* to be seen as modeled on British car magazines, but they are just not that good.  I've been reading several since roughly 1991 (Car, Performance Car, Evo, Performance Car (Part 2), Complete Car, BBC Top Gear and some more short-lived tryouts I can't recall), although I've trimmed that down to Car and Evo now.  Automobile falls so short any comparison is folly.

Space is a major issue (oh lord, I've gone and made a pun).  Automobile is the smallest of major U.S. car magazines.  It feels just terribly thin in your hands.  Even though I just received an amazing offer to renew my subscription, I'm going to pass because it's just a bore now.

Jamie Kitman used to be funny.  Now all he does is whine.  I can read complete articles of George Kacher's drives in CAR, so why read cut-down versions in Automobile?  Road and comparison tests are still far to brief and uninformative.  And now, for the last few months they've made things even worse with page after page of intensely dull travel guides masquarading as automotive journalism.  If I was interested in where they ate, how nice their hotel carpets were, and sundry other details about absolutely everything BUT the car they happen to be driving, I might renew.  But enough is enough.

They had their moments, but are the Saab of car magazines.  And for those who don't know, the news this morning announced that Saab has finally died for good.  I don't wish such ill on Automobile, but they lost me a long time ago.

Automobile is less interesting, and less likely to make you smile or challenge the reader, than when I first wrote this review, and I'd give it a single star now.


title: Better than ever

text:
Several times in the past I've almost completely given up on Motor Trend. I even canceled my subscription on two occasions. My main gripe during those times? Too darned many trucks and SUVs. Sure, that's what the U.S. public seems to want, and "Trend" does appear in the name, but boooooring. When they released Truck Trend as a sister publication, I danced for joy and then fell flat on my face when MT seemed to STILL spend 2/3 of every issue on hulking boringmobiles.

In recent months Motor Trend has come full circle and again seems to be focusing on interesting articles about cars. Trucks and SUVs are hardly missing, but in that respect and others MT is tremendously better than it was, say, two years ago. The transformation is nearly astounding. I can still remember the first time I closed the back flap of the latest issue and suddenly thought "Holy smokes, that was GOOD!"

Now definitely worth reading again!


title: Simply the best car magazine

text:
If you're here in the U.S., don't let that put you off reading this fantastic magazine just because you won't see a lot of American cars.  This magazine is worth every cent (more on that later).  And reading of the miriad great cars, from cheap thrills to supercars, that you can't get here will bring tears to your eyes.  Renault making a giant killer little Chevy Aveo-sized hatchback with 197 horsepower and 18-inch wheels?  Yes, it happens over there.

It is simply SO much more than you see in any U.S. car mag.  It's BIG, both physically and in content, and written with the kind of thorough evaluation and engrossing, you'd-swear-you-were-right-there-with-them prose above any other (including CAR, my pervious favorite).

What makes it so good?  Three main things.  First, the writers, of course, many of them springing from the former Performance Car magazine.  That sad publication declined in just about every way over it's lifetime until, at the time of it's demise, it wasn't worth the bother anymore.  Oh, how they've redeamed themselves!

Second, the cars they write about.  The focus is on performance; but not just super-exotics and, thank God, tuner cars (although the latter pop up now and then in an entirely appropriate way), but anything that stirs the driver's soul, even if it's a $10,000 little hatch with a zingy engine and giddy handling.

Third, the writing.  EVO is much more biased toward subjective evaluation in favor of just spouting instrument test numbers (hello U.S. car magazines with pages and pages of minute and often uninteresting stats), and their data panels are concise and have just enough information to be thorough without a bunch of fluff (brake swept area?  Come on, Road and Track, who cares?).

The best example by far is their annual car of the year issue.  Yes, everyone does these, but no one does it like EVO.  It's much more free-form, much more subjective, and much, much more fun to read.  Rather than evaluate each car in a distinct portion, it reads more like a road adventure with drivers swapping cars and really letting you know how each is to drive.

Frankly, you get the impression that EVO doesn't give a squat if one car pulls .89g on a skidpad while a competitor pulls .87g.  What you're much more likely to read is how each car *feels* when that grip is being used, and used to the limit.  Hard numbers matter less than true driving fun, which is why you might find the handling of a little hatchback rated above a wide tired monster's.

They do provide plenty of performance data, but the big difference is they don't get caught up in it.  You'll find it's more important how a car handles than how it grips, how effective it's brakes are over a long, hard drive rather than how many feet it takes to do a single stop, and how the car works with or against you to provide real fun.  All done with engaging writing and wit.

I'll stop babbling now.  :o)  But I do want to conclude with one item mentioned in almost every review here - price.  It's cheaper to buy at a good bookstore.  There is some convenience and peace of mind in having a subscription, but I'm baffled as to why British car mags are always more expensive to subscribe to than to buy off the shelf.  EVO is still worth it, though.


title: Pretty good but not $15/issue

text: For those who love cars and would like to see how the other half lives, this is a great magazine.  Highly focused on it's native British market, it makes for interesting and often amusing reading.  If we had half the cars currently available in Europe/Great Britain, the big 3 would be gone.<br />However, a subscription price of nearly $15 per issue is flatly absurd.  You can reliably pick this up each month at large book stores.  It simply isn't worth that price.


title: Bowser Report

text: Very well put together report with the statistics to back it up. I highly reccommend it to anyone starting to invest or for investment clubs who want a system for picking sound investments. I plan to be a subscriber for quite some time.


title: Five Stars

text: Great magazine!


title: Raelene

text: Once we got the address correct on the order everything has been fine. If you live in different state other than Ga be sure you indicate that you want the GA or your state. otherwise they send the state on your address listed on the order.


title: Quality seems to be going down of the publication

text: I have been reading GQ for most of my life. It seems that the overall quality of the fashion that is displayed is geared toward things like $2500 jeans and $750 t-shirts that are thrown together to look like it was styled at the local thrift shop. The articles seem weak and generally I find the subscription more disappointing every issue. I do not see renewing, which is too bad being as men's fashion is a big business that could use a good publication.


title: Some lovely places to see but pricing of destinations is a bit lofty

text: This magazine has some beautiful photography and I enjoy many of the articles. The one thing that seems off about it is that the hotel/lodging pricing that is focused on is rather expensive. I travel a lot more than the average recreational traveler and when I find hotels in Travel + Leisure I am always shocked at the prices. It is rare to see anything under $500 a night which is ridiculous in my mind. If you want something to read that is beautiful and to encourage dreams this is a great travel magazine. If you are of average income many of the concepts will only be dreams.


title: The cooks magazine

text: Beautiful magazine with great photography, well written articles and some really incredible recipes. I love receiving it each and relaxing to dive into what new places Saveur will expose me to. Most of the recipes are pretty easy to follow or have a medium level of cooking experience/skill required. Some of the more complex recipes are so different that it is worth doing them just for the experience. If you enjoy food and love to cook then this is a must have magazine for you.


title: A must if you live in the western states

text:
Sunset is like a western states version of Saveur.  Travel, recipes, interesting events... Plus some really good gardening and decorating articles.  Its not preachy or pretentious, always informative and a joy to find in the mailbox.

Its also printed on paper that is easy to turn pages and read along as opposed to other magazines with a huge number of cardboard and foldout ads and static-y paper.  It jumps around a lot less than some magazines too.

I read somewhere that they just had a big layoff and reorg, but the magazine is still as good as ever as far as I can tell.


title: Saveur is far and away the best magazine for food lovers

text:
Delicious recipes, color photos, travel background, ingredients sources, well written articles and the ads are not designed to make you rip the magazine apart like a certain 'no ads' magazine.

Sometimes the contributing authors are a little full of themselves, but overall the writing is excellent and the food is authentic to the region being written about.  Its a touch expensive direct from Saveur, but a good deal on Amazon.


title: Useful up to a point

text: I have gotten Cooks for 2 years.  The best thing was the no-ads policy, but now they have so much self promotional garbage that you have to tear out/off that it defeats the purpose.  Some of their simple american fare recipes are really good, but they have kind of a podunk USA approach to international food.  Tacos are made with hamburger. Their asian dishes are boring stir-frys or noodles.  Their food reviews are really funny, chock full of nuts is the best french roast, Bullseye the best barbeque sauce and Doritos the best tortilla chip. Yeah OK maybe for people who make tacos with hamburger.


title: Five Stars

text: Interesting short stories and a worthwhile addition to any guitarist library.


title: Why bother?

text: The subscription was included in another purchase. I've seen the mag before and found it to be pretty useless as far as conveying hard information. Most of what I've read from the articles can be found in the product's press release.


title: One Star

text: total fraud. website still up, taking money. doing nothing


title: Love My Entertainment Weekly

text: "Where did you hear that," my husband frequently asks me when I tell him a delightful tidbit of news about a favorite TV show or actor or movie. I get my popular entertainment news from Entertainment Weekly. Love the weekly book reviews too.


title: Beautiful Turkey Intelligently Presented

text: Turkey is at once one of the oldest inhabited areas and the most progressive Muslim country in the world (the only one which separates mosque and state). It also contains the northern  part of the Holy Land. Cornucopia presents all this: readers can find stories about archeologists trying to preserve ancient ruins from waters created by dams, historic peoples and their customs, rose culture for perfume oils, glorious mountains and gardens, historic homes, palaces, villages, and nomadic people.  This is Turkey, lovingly presented in a beautifully designed, photographed, and intelligently written English language magazine.


title: Good and positive stories.

text: I love that this periodical is available from Amazon. I send it to my brother, in jail and he really enjoys it. I wish more periodicals were available as the jail only accepts them from Amazon.


title: my kids don't like it.

text: I don't know what i was expecting really but this magazine is....boring. My kids aren't into faeries which seems to be spelled in correctly and the little stories inside of it are all wizards and magic type of things. That's not really our speed and i guess I was thinking more along the lines of highlight magazine or ranger rick? This isn't really like cute and lighthearted more poetry readings and strange stories. If your kiddo is into that then great. I'm bummed I had to wait like 8 weeks for this, got it for my son and he totally thinks its lame and I totally agree with him. As soon as I find it, I'll take a picture of it for those who might be interested in the inside. I almost think I tossed it.


One of the three best firearms publications, IMHO. I look forward to its arrival. Good articles, although they're known to never criticize a firearm in a review. Great side discussions, letters, firearm identification and valuation and great ads. This one is my favorite.


title: Field & Stream

text: Always a great read, and subject that matter.


title: Real Simple

text: Always good ideas and recipes found in this magazine.


title: bbest way to order

text: Great


title: Information and tangible "mechanics" of art pursued in this mag make it a profitable procurement.

text: I can learn from this magazine. To me that is what gives it great value. It has a lot of ads but that has to be. I think it is a good investment for me. As a struggling artist that is very important.


title: Good magazine

text: It is exactly what I thought it would be


title: Good Car Magazine

text: Good writing.


title: A Great Magazine For The Music Enthusiast

text:
Goldmine is a music magazine that caters to record collectors.  The cover stories and articles deal with all types of music (rock, r & b, pop, country, jazz, reggae, punk, alternative, etc.) with the greatest emphasis on artists who were popular in the '60s and '70s.  Recent cover stories include interviews with surviving members of the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, the Four Seasons, and the Dave Clark 5's lead singer Mike Smith.  There are also annual issues devoted to Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
Each issue of Goldmine contains reviews on recent cd releases (new product and reissues/collections).  There are also country and jazz sections that contain interviews with vintage artists (recent country interviews include Bobby Bare, Guy Clark, and Merle Haggard) and cd reviews.  The country section also provides helpful info like upcoming tv appearance and cd release dates, while the jazz section offers esoteric essays from jazz historian Carlo Wolff.  Dahl's Digs is one of my favorite columns, where celebrated author Bill Dahl (Motown: The Golden Years) "digs" up some rare musical treasures from the past that have been recently reissued (or should be).
Since Goldmine is a magazine for record collectors, there are a number of ads by vendors who carry rare/promo vinyl and cds, as well as a classified section where you can state what you're looking for (I have bought some rare radio promo collections this way).  If you like a lot of genres of music, especially music recorded during the '50s through the '80s, then I think you will enjoy Goldmine.


title: Five Stars

text: up to date value


title: Too many ads, not enough content.

text: Too many ads, not enough content.  Read online for free instead of paying for print ads.


title: For the Rich

text: This magazine is okay.  But it's mostly advertising of designer goods to rich people.  Wish I hadn't gotten it.


title: Poor Quality Photos and Old News

text: US Weekly has old news or made up stories.  No breaking news on the big stars of the day.  The quality of their pictures is poor.  They cram a lot of small pictures into one page and they are blurry or faded.  I subscribe to two other mags:  People and Closer.  They are definitely a lot more classy....better photos and stories on people who are relevant to our day and our society.  I think Chris Jenner must own stock in US....every issue one of her clan is either on the cover or has several pages devoted to them...Ugh...Needless to say I will not be renewing this subscription.


title: excellent

text: reading


title: Great

text: Great


title: Five Stars

text: I enjoy the articles in the Reader's Digest.  They are interesting, entertaining, educational and well written.


title: magazine

text: my daughters like getting fun mail just as much as everyone else...and so far this is a good magazine with upbeat and good information on growing up into ladies


title: Great newpaper to read

text: Always good to get the truth that is going on about Israel.  Enjoy the many types of articles and some recipes.  Thanks.


title: The top custom knife magazine!

text:
This is clearly the top choice in custom knife magazines, though Knife Illustrated is also a good choice.  It's probably 60% custom / 40% production.
The articles are good and insightful, some very high quality color pictures, and it's generally speaking entertaining & instructive.
The 4 star only rating is due to (1) the lack of objectivity of the articles (I have *never* read a negative review), and (2) too many pictures of custom knives are in B&W.  I would happily pay double the price, get half as many issues, but in a glossy, high quality paper, premium binding, etc...


title: Good content, classy presentation!

text:
If everyone interested in cooking were to read this, France would probably disappear from the map as *the* "haute cuisine" destination.  ;-)

Seriously, this is good stuff, with reviews, in depth articles, tips, where to buy this or that (including websites - very useful when you don't leave in NY or SF!)

It also doesn't concerns itself only with super complicated stuff.  In fact, my favorite article was about cast iron skillets.

The pictures are great too, and the magazine is nice enough to be proudly displayed on your bookshelves.

This is fun to read and useful - highly recommended!


title: Too few pictures, too small articles!

text:
I really wanted to give 4 stars to this one, but I can't, nor even 4.  I have been repeatedly disappointed by articles being too short on subjects I was esp. interested in (wildlife mostly), too long on others (geography / anthropology), and not technical enough.  The latter might be a good thing if you're absolutely allergic to science, but take into account that I am not a scientist.  When I say that something is not technical enough, it really means that it's superficial...  Other than that, the articles are well written.

The pictures are excellent, and that's what motivates me to give 3 stars.  However, I often wish there would be more of them...

Note that nearly each issue includes a large format folded map or some kind of graphic display illustrating the main article.  From my point of view, this is quite a waste of money, since I don't use those much.  They're probably perfect if you want to discuss the article with teenagers though.  Personnally,! I wish there were no maps and more pictures.

I am not going to renew my subscription, but this is more a fit issue than a judgement of the quality of the product.  I encourage people to buy a single issue before deciding.


title: Five Stars

text: very good


The new Vermont Life  is like a Hallmark card: sappy, cliche and no substance. The old one had some beautiful writing, thoughtful pieces and you actually learned something. This is basically a poor ad for the state. It does have pretty pictures though


title: All Celebrity

text: This used to be a really good magazine that I subscribed to for years. They used to have really good indepth articles on veterans, war, culture. Over time it became more like People magazine: a constant onslaught of celebrity, which I find B-O-R-I-N-G. You can get that for free at TMZ--if you want to.


title: Great magazine that teaches appreciation for wildlife

text: My grandparents bought me a subscription for this when I was a kid and I always appreciated it.


title: Informative magazine with no competition, but . . .

text:
Consumer Reports is in a league by itself. Where else are you going to find reliable information and comparisons on consumer products without the conflict of interest of paid advertising? However, it's a small monthly magazine; so don't be surprised if (1) several issues review no products you're interested in and (2) the item you're thinking of buying was last reviewed six years ago and the information is completely out-of-date.
A less serious problem is that the magazine's reviews occasionally give a product a mediocre rating for reasons that I find picky or insignificant. However, their criteria are clear, so it's not hard to know when this is the case. From time to time, they also seem to miss the point. For example, a faucet-mounted water filter is said to clog easily, when in fact it's designed to cut off after so many gallons. Removing the filter cartridge and reinserting it--which the manufacturer understandably advises against--takes 10 seconds and returns the flow to normal.
Nevertheless, I like the idea of what Consumer Reports offers and represents. That alone might be a reason to subscribe, if you have some disposable income for a good cause.
I don't subscribe and as someone who lives and earns modestly by choice, I probably never will. Instead, I consult Consumer Reports at my public library whenever I'm considering a purchase that the magazine might be helpful with. This has two advantages: (1) I save the price of a subscription and (2) I feel less disappointed and frustrated when it offers no useful information on a particular product (about 60% of the time).
If you buy a lot of consumer products beyond the essentials, then your chances of finding the magazine helpful are increased, the price of a subscription perhaps no problem, and the magazine is probably for you. If you're not sure, consult the magazine at the library before you're next couple of purchases. Then you'll know for yourself whether it's worth having your very own copy in your mailbox every month.


title: Once a great journal; now an ideological rag.

text: I was a subscriber to Foreign Affairs through the 1980s and 90s. It was a journal that presented ideas from all parts of the ideological spectrum. I subscribed again just a few months ago, only to find that it has devolved into a publication of Leftist screeds. I'll be canceling forthwith. What a shame.


title: Flawed, but still the best

text: Compared to the other gamming magazines I've read, (GamePro, OPM, PSM etcetera) EGM is the best, and it's especially better than those stupid "adult game mags" that try to look like Maxim magazine and FHM. When it comes to coverage of the videogame industry and magazine appearance EGM excels, however I think that they are a little inconsistent when it comes to the amount of time they put into the reviews of some games. What I mean is, it seems to me that really hyped games like say Grand Theft Auto get way more coverage and playing time put into them, where as other less talked about games get about three inches of review space-and some times a bad review. This problem isn't as bad in EGM as it is in other gamming mags (cough-GamePro-cough) but it is still at a level where it becomes unfair to those games that come from companies with less money than Rock Star or Square. Overall though, I think that the review system as well as the rest of the magazine is still top notch. I would also like to give props to EGM for their sense of humor, no other gamming mag is as funny as EGM, four stars!


title: A Simple Review

text: This magazine used to be good...but now, it is boring...the interviews are boring...I don't even bother reading them, they seem to mainly just tell you a couple things about what the person they are interviewing is doing at the time...what they are wearing, and ask a few questions...I cancelled my subscription too...there are TONS of ads!!! Ads take up most of the magazine! The only clothes they recommend...are usually more than $100. So unless you want a magazine that is mainly ads(I swear they take up more than the actual stuff they write about!)I would NOT recommend this magazine to anyone! The things I did like about it, just seem to have disappeared.