Magazines for your summer holiday?

I have a years free subscription to GH which I used to read many years ago. I don't know if I will bother to renew it - although it does get passed on to DD after I have scanned any interesting recipes. We have had Private Eye for years which we all read. Much prefer a book or Kindle for holidays though.

A friend bought me a year's subscription to Woman and Home when I was 60. I rather enjoyed having it pop through the letter box each month, especially as it wasn't costing me anything. I decided to carry on with it after the year was up but I may cancel it now. It's OK but there are too many articles about smug women with perfect lives.

No, I definitely do NOT buy 'People's Friend' or 'Yours' but then I never have done!

Coming back across the Channel last week, a 2-hour crossing from Dunkerque to Dover, in the first-class lounge I read the papers provided and then went back to my Kindle. On the way out I listened to a recorded book on my iPod.

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Only ever buy gardening or house magazines, and only when I've got a money off coupon.
Can't bear the so called celebrity mags which I've had a look at in waiting rooms. Who are these people? Reality and soap performers, can't bring myself to say stars!

Yours and Saga are the only ones which I find interesting.
I'm not into celebrity stuff. Now and again a gardening magazine is nice, but they are all so expensive.

I used to buy subscriptions to gardening magazines with "free" seeds with my Tesco vouchers. I now use Readly. It has an extensive range of magazines including interactive puzzle magazines and most of the magazines available at my local Smiths.

I used to laugh at my DD. She would buy loads of glossy magazines at the airport and then sit and tear out all the adverts she could before boarding - result much trimmed down ( and lighter) magazines to read!

i used to read womans weekly and peoples friend - my mother used to pass them on to me so i didn't actually buy them.
i went through a phase of buying she but then got fed up with it.
after a very long period of not buying magazines i then bought cross stitch and gardening magazines until they got too expensive.
in the end i found that i could live without buying magazines and no longer do so.
if going to the doctor or dentist then i usually check through my mobile and read more interesting things in my email - like gransnet!

I was interested to see how many people read a magazine in the doctors surgery. Our surgery has cleared all magazines away in the name of Infection Control.
The dentist has swanky decorating magazines - I like those!

I haven't bought a magazine except for the occasional Good Housekeeping in years. I'm a kindle, tablet and puzzle book fan. Our library has an online library section so I can borrow books to read on my phone or iPad for free.

I have a subscription to BBC good food bought for me for mothers day that's good and if you like cooking and it's short flight perhaps sainsbury's magazine they sometimes have a good crossword in it but a long flight I would go with book. I find magazines these days are full of fake news anyway.

I used to enjoy magazines but haven't bought one for 15 or 20 years. I have no interest in the celebrity gossip and find very little else of interest.

Adaunas.
Thanks for that I will give our local library a try and see if they do the same.

I've signed up to Readily-online magazine subscription. £7.99 a month for 100's of magazines and can be shared with family or friends (on up to 5 devices), brilliant and can be cancelled at any time.

I don't buy magazines - I do find them boring and a waste of mmoney, but I subscribe (or rather my husband does on my behalf) to Who Do You Think You Are....to feed my need for genealogy stuff!

I'm an avid book reader, rather than a magazine one.

I, along with many previous posters, have not bought a magazine for years. I have as much interest in 'celebrity' lifestyle as they would have in mine! Although I am a voracious reader, my reading matter is of the charity shop book sale variety. I have just stocked up on books from the local library sale, paying 10p each. Why would I buy magazines?

I join the majority here in that I cannot remember when I last bought a magazine and yet I used to do so with regularity. I think the celebrity emphasis was a huge contributary factor not helped by the fact that I didn't know who half these celebrities were. (Wish they were aware of that!). However I do buy one magazine indirectly and that is the supplement in the DM on a Saturday. I find it an all rounder and containing considerable constructive information otherwise I wouldn't be having a paper at all these days.

I buy woman's weekly and my weekly each week. So I will buying them when I go away I also take a couple of books too,

Only take paperback novels on holiday usually bought in charity shops or swapped with friends. Even then I don"t always read them. Our library has magazines you can take out for a week at a time.....only the expensive glossy sort though so occasionally might borrow one if something of interest catches my eye. Otherwise have"nt bought them for a long time. The books I buy to keep are non fiction and usually from The Works.

I have a lifetime subscription for Saga magazine that I got as a birthday present ten years ago.
It was an excellent read, but unfortunately changed its format and contributors some months ago and I don't enjoy it as much.
Does anyone remember Nova, Cosmo. and She magazines?

Magazines are simply comics for immature adults.

I take books, my husband takes his e-reader...I'm not interested in magazines. All my books come from the charity shop and when I have finished them I leave them either on a cruise ship or an airport for someone else to read. You may say, books weigh a bit, the way I see it the books are not coming back with me so I have an allowance in my suitcase for items I buy abroad.

Oh? Which magazines do you read, emilie?

In print, Good Housekeeping say about twice a year, usually including the Christmas issue - used to read this avidly when a young, dewy-eyed bride many years ago, now seems increasingly repetitive and celeb focussed but still worth a quick flick through occasionally. The odd issue of Coast. Private Eye on subscription. But the library also makes GH, Olive, Lonely Planet and various other glossies available free online, which I do dip into when I have the time and can remember the login - worth finding out if your library does something similar. My historic favourite was Nova in the sixties.