There's something to be said about holding up a good book or a good magazine and flipping through the pages.
With a solid net connection, it's so easy these days to find the information you're looking for quickly and easily, without having to pay for extra tree killing. Arguably however, our energy use has gone up significantly over the years, so clearly there's an impact on the environment in other ways.
Every thing is going online nowadays. Even news papers that have held out for decades, are now shutting down their printing presses completely and changing to an online model.
The question of the day is: Do you still subscribe to print computer/tech magazines?
And if so, which ones and why?
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With tech magazines I found I was spending 40 bucks a month for 5 minutes of news, and then the rest of the magazine to tell me stuff I already knew.
So I dont buy tech mags anymore.
I still buy them now and then but i go to the store and check if any have something of interest to me first, reviews on a new launch etc just for a differant perspective on the thing.
Mactronix
The problem with most of the mags are, they are full of the "top 10 (things) to do X". X being Burn a DVD or something easy. I don’t need to pay money for a list of digg level stories. I used to buy edge rather a lot - but that’s only as good as the games. Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw gives the best take on games.
It's websites like yours that used to rule this! This used to beat anandtech hands down. Even pcstats is getting better!!!!!!!!
But in answer to your question - No. I used to read them at the train station; but now I just popup to the Weherspoons pub for 10min. Much better use of the money.
I "read" PC Format, but to be honest it's more out of sympathy. They epitomise the geeky gamer in their approach/style here in the UK.
Otherwise I tend to read a lot of web sites re
such as madshrimps.be, hexus.net, hardocp.com, harwarecanucks.com and a few others.
It costs me only $24.00 US to get 12 copies of MaximumPC, and around 30.00$ CAN for 12 issues CPU Magazine.
Like anything, setting time aside durring the day to do something you usually dont, ie: read a book/magazine, can be very rewarding. I'm at a computer all day, and hard copies are a nice change of pace. Besides, theres always more than 5 minutes of reading per magazine...
A few zears back when "Internet" was still "???" I was subscibed for 2-3. Becuase of tech info and included CDs.