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aimeeandbeatles
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Is it just me, or is it the only decent magazine nowadays? I like reading Reader's Digest. I have a few hundred copies I got at yard sales
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Mr_Winston
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I tend to be found delving into 'National Geographic' myself. 
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MysteryFan3
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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RD is good. I also like Consumer Reports, Time and Mad.
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ASPERGERSJOHN
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Joined: May 23, 2007
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Location: ON MY COMPUTER OR AT THE FOOTBALL GROUND
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Readers Digest is a good read but i am not into reading myself. |
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Rain_Bird
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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It's okay. I had a free subscription to it, but I think it ran out. I like Scientific American and MacWorld myself.
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9CatMom
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I like Forbes and Cat Fancy. The Reader's Digest used to be good, but now has all of these celebrity interviews. |
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luvinmykid
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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I liked RD about 5 years ago. Recently it is kind of crappy. More ads, etc. Still a decent mag tho. I like New England Journal of Medicine myself, but its so pricey  |
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TrishC7
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Joined: Apr 16, 2007
Age: 50
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Location: Kansas City area
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| I used to love RD; grew up with it in the house, then my parents used to give us gift subscriptions every year once we each left home. But went a few years without reading it, and when I did again I didn't like it. Too conservative for my personal taste. Well put-together, though. |
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richie
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Location: Lake Whoop-Dee-Doo, Pennsylvania
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My mags are Popular Science, Smithsonian, and Nut & Volts. I yearn for the
good old days of Popular Electronics, and Radio Electronics. Fortunately some
of the columns from the defunct Electronics Now still survive as "cyber-zines".
Heres one: http://www.tinaja.com/ |
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CockneyRebel
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I'm into Popular Science and Psycology Today. I enjoy reading about how the Human Brain works.  |
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9CatMom
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| I agree. There are way too many ads and it seems to have almost a People magazine type of feel. The vocabulary tests are far less challenging and the jokes are sometimes in questionable taste. I can also do without the celebrity interviews. |
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MrMacPhisto
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:26 am Post subject: |
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I have not picked up a Readers Digest magazine since 1999 what is it like now I did have a copy brought from a Car Boot Sale from 1980 (Before I was born) and it was really thick.
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misspuff
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I've never read Reader's Digest before.
Normally I pick up Time and MacLean's (a smarter, Canadian version of Newsweek) and sometimes Psychology Today, but that one is mostly full of unscientific bullshit. |
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