Autocar
Classic and Sports Car
Classic Cars
Classics
Practical Classics
Auto Italia
Volksworld
Volksworld Camper and Bus
Bike
Ride

The Times from, er, time-to-time

The WORD

When I go back to work, this list will quadruple to include every music and 'lifestyle' weekly and monthly, plus trade publications. Oh joy.

Like you, I subscribe to two now, Word and Autosport. The only other mag I regularly buy is WSC. Occasionally I'll get Mojo, NME or Private Eye.

Regulars:

The Guardian, every day
The Observer, though I really don't like the recent makeover
The Word

Occasionals:

When Saturday Comes, I used to be a subscriber but got bored...
Q, I used to subscribe to Q too; now I just glance through my daughter's copy
Private Eye
The Liverpool Echo
The Times
NME / Mojo / Uncut, if there's something of interest therein or a decent CD thereon.

I subscribe to Word (natch) and Mojo and read every word of both. The latter gets the odd shoeing here but (HJH and Floyd obsessions aside) I maintain it's the best at what it does and I remain a happy customer. Like many, and as discussed here before, I gave up Q 7 or 8 years ago when it became a monthly list-a-thon (the Christina Aguilera cover broke this camel's back.)

I don't subscribe, but do buy Empire every month, though am constantly on the verge of giving it up, as it's getting to be nothing but a collection of puff-pieces and reprinted press releases from the major studios, but it's still the best single source of movie & DVD information.

I buy Radio Times each week in the absence of a better option, though this week's appalling new redesign could well make me bail out as they're devoting even less space to listings.

I buy The Guardian most Mondays out of habit for the Media section, but probably wouldn't miss it if I gave it up. Private Eye is my stuck-at-the-station-with-nothing-to-read standby.

Word (surprise)
Uncut
Mojo
R2
Songlines
FourFourTwo
When Saturday Comes
Speedway Star
Mac User
British Birds
Birding World
British Wildlife

and I get several trade mags via work.

I probably read 80% of Word, WSC and Birding World, the others vary between a cursory glance and 60% apart from the work magazines which often reach the recyling bin with the advertising bumf still inside!

I'm a magazine designer, so will leaf through any old tat, normally tut-tutting, or doing the 'bugger, wish I'd thought of that' grimace.
I buy most of these at the newsstand every month/fortnight/week:
Mojo
Uncut
Guitar and Bass
Bass Guitar
Little White Lies (quite original film mag mainly bought for the design)
The Chap
Viz
Classic Rock
Private Eye
Radio Times

I gave up on the NME and Q the same time as Melody Maker, which gives you an idea of timescale. Get most of the papers every day at work, but buy Guardian/Observer/Independent at weekends out of habit.

Empire and The Word

I subscribe to both, though recently I've been toying with the idea of abandoning Empire, simply because since the arrival of Tiny Monty my film viewing has reduced dramatically: what's the point in reading about a bunch of films I may never see? Thing is, I feel that I can't just give it up now - I have bought it since the very first issue when I was 16; it's been with me forever and even if I do get tired at reading yet another article about Iron Man 2 (I think they've covered it every isse for about a year) I find it hard to imagine a month without it. This may not be healthy, but what's a geeky bloke to do?

I read pretty much every word of both, though I do ignore the odd review or prog-based article in The Word.

Private Eye are the only two I actually pay for. Sometimes I'll buy Record Collector, and if at an airport I always pick up The New Yorker, which I'd love to subscribe to but would never have time to read.

Otherwise I get (but don't have to pay for):

Entertainment Weekly
Empire
Mojo
Q

But I do read millions of other magazines as part of my job, but I make sure I do it in work time. There's no way I'm taking Reveal or Soaplife across my threshold.

I often get
The New Yorker
I sometimes get
Mojo
ocassionally
Uncut
Rarely
Empire ( I agree with Metal Mickey`s opinion above)

Daily - the Guardian
Observer when I can be arsed (the makeover is patchy, but the Review section's not to bad really)
Word sub natch
I also subscribe to PC Pro and Mac Format for work reasons.

Occasionals:
Private Eye
Viz

Apart from The Word

Subscribe to;

The Spectator - for the quality of writing
The Garden - RHS magazine comes with the annual sub. Wouldn't buy it otherwise.
Wired - originally bought to encourage techology obsessed teenage son to lift his eyes away from a screen. Some good articles.
Granta - is it a magazine?. A quarterly that is my main source of good new writing.

Seem to also buy every copy of Private Eye and the Sunday Times. Habit acquired as a student.

If nI buy a paper then it's always the Telegraph although the daily paper purchase is a habit I'm slowly breaking.

I get Olive, and I've just subscribed to Fire and Knives, which is a rather lovely thing.

Currently I also subscribe to Heeb, a Brooklyn based satirical magazine for Jews. I am neither Jewish nor from New York, but I find it very entertaining. However, I'm thinking of letting the sub lapse and subscribing instead to Russia magazine, at least until something else takes my fancy.

I also subscribe to The Word.

I subscribe to Word,Empire and Time Out. Used to subscribe to 442, but got fed up with all the sponsor approved, puff piece, safe interviews.
The Times is my newspaper of choice, but I sometimes get the increasingly slimline Observer on a Sunday.

The Guardian most days (or if not then the Indepenedent) plus the Observer on a Sunday. I get my Saturday and Sunday copies delviered which I really like, but it just wouldn't work during the week.

I used to buy severla papers a day, but they just don't have enough at the moment to draw me in.

On magazines, aside from the Word, I buy 2-3 a month and usually a mix of Uncut, Mojo, New Statesman and the Economist. The music mags get bought on the basis of a particular feature or even reviews.

Subscriber.

I like buying one of Empire, Mojo or Uncut depending on my mood and the content when I'm at an airport to pass time on the flight.

Often think I should subscribe to the Economist as I've always liked it but I never quite get round to it.

... Doctor Who Magazine (a force of habit / love since the first issue in October 1979) and When Saturday Comes (subscriber / occasional contributor). Also the ZSL's quarterly magazine comes as part of the package for the donation from my monthly wage.

is my only regular purchase - regardless of content.
I usually get one or two computer arts magazines each month - depends on the content.
I often buy Juxtapoz - a 'low brow' art mag.
Various other art or music mags if the mood takes me.
The Comics Journal from time to time - issue 300 is more of a book.

The Word

The Independent (daily)

Have in the past bought all the 'big name' music mags.
Q - never seemed to be very challenging or introduce me to anything new
Mojo - good mag, but wanted more "new" to go with the "old"
Uncut - too much Americana

Bought, and then subscribed to, Four Four Two from Issue 1. Stopped a couple of years ago when I found I just wasn't reading it anymore (apart from a brief flick through and brief perusal of a couple of articles)

So now its just one magazine & one newspaper.

Word (duh)
Edge
Interzone
Black Static (the last two are both fiction magazines)

regularly read at work, ie never been tested on whether I'd pay for them or not, but there is an element of having to read them to do the job properly

Uncut
Mojo
Q
NME
Kerrang
Empire
Total Film
Games TM

Private Eye
New Statesman
The Spectator

Subscribe to all of them. Occasionally buy SFX, Uncut, Wired, New Yorker, The Idler, The Chap and various other dodgy political type ones. Usually buy a Guardian and the occasional Telegraph.

For me I subscribe to:

The WORD &
ISIS.

Daily read: Irish Independent

Sunday read: The Sunday Times.

Country Walking
Lakeland Walker
Hi-Fi News

....except when I'm dayshift. I buy The Scotsman on these days and flick through all the red tops that everyone else has bought.

Word subscription.

I always have a look through Uncut and Mojo in the shops but very rarely buy.

I love National Geographic but have never subscribed. I spend an hour in the library reading it, then 10 minutes picking out novels to take home. Maybe it's about time I turned this around.

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I subscribe to
Word
Mojo
Q (only due to inertia - only flick through it nowadays, though I do look to see if they've sacked the editor yet each time)
T3 (can't afford to actually buy anything in it, though)
What's Brewing/Beer (though often don;t find time to read them)

and I buy a Telegraph on Saturdays.

In the past I've had subs to Private Eye, 442, WSC, Top Gear but have stopped even occasional purchases these days.

And, of course, Leeds Leeds Leeds until they ceased publication (though now it goes to season ticket holders/members, I believe, but I can't afford that, either.)

Often:
Songlines and Mojo (depends on the CD)

Sometimes:
Private Eye and Empire

And Saturday wouldn't be complete without the Guardian. I browse the broadsheets online during the week, and there isn't anything I want in The Observer since the Azed crossword became available online.

Word subscriber since time began.

Private Eye and When Saturday Comes on subscription too.

Also get Radio Times on subscription but may let this lapse as it was a good offer with my Tesco vouchers last summer, unless they can persuade me to stay.

Let go of Empire a few years ago and was a Q subscriber for a while but like NME I grew out of it.

Having been a staunch Guardian reader for over 20 years I now flit between that, the Independent and the Times. Observer on a Sunday (I quite like the reduced format) but sometimes the Sunday Times.

I quite like our family copy of the RSPB birds magazine. They have some great adverts for utility trousers. Also worth a flick through is the National Geographic's Kids magazine, which eddie jnr really enjoys.

Word
Uncut
Wisden Cricketer
When Saturday Comes
A Load of Bull (Wolves fanzine)
Speedway Star
Backtrack (Speedway in the 70's and 80's)

Occasionally buy Mojo and newspaper of choice (on rare occasions) the Indy or Irish News.

My monthly list:
The Word
Fortean Times
World Explorer
Wizard
When Saturday Comes
WSC gets here about a month after it comes out in the UK. I now get Sky Sports every night on television, but you can't beat WSC for humor about football, no matter how out of date the news.

I have, however, purchased every issue of Viz for the last 25-odd years.

I've never subscribed because it would mean me admitting to myself that I am really that juvenile.

In the past, I have subscribed to GQ, Esquire, Maxim, FORE!, MAD!, Guitarist, New Scientist, Rolling Stone, The Beano, Victor, The Fisherman's Handbook, Smash Hits!, Q and probably a few others.

The one to Club International, delivered to my work, was a joke from my mates.

I only renewed it a couple of times.

just Mojo and WSC but to honest both as much through inertia as anything else..

still buy Guardian and Observer most days but younger people in my office consider this a rather quaint habit comparable to wearing a bowler to work. Which I don't , obviously...

I get all the music magazines for free at work because I take home any leftovers when the new ones come out.

Except the Word which we don't stock. I pay for it. nightmare!

Papers
The Guardian/ Daily Mirror/ Daily Record/ Liverpool ECHO (sorry, alumnus style point cap)/ Liverpool Daily Post/ Crosby Herald every day/ week.
The Indie & Times for music on Friday
Occasional Observer/ Indie at weekends.
(Irish) Sunday Tribune/ Sunday World/ Sunday Independent for GAA/ paedophile priest/ gangster/ paramilitary updates from the oul sod.
Father-in-law's Mail & Tele three or four days a week.
All the (Northern &) Irish papers online most days

Magazines
Private Eye (never really read the newsier end since Foot has gone)
The Word (never look at the others now, as I know everything I need to about Beatles/ Dylan/ Stones etc)
Cycle Sport/ Pro Cycling/ Cycling weekly

Would love to subscribe to the high quality cycling glossies like Rouleur, but know there is no time for them.

But: I have a dream to open a highly profitable crossover Celtic FC/ pro-cycling/ GAA/ rock and roll/ David Simon-Ed Burns magazine with a related podcast but fear the only place that would sell is where it now exists - in my own head.

Subscribe:
-The Word
-Mojo

Buy regularly:
-The Guardian (Saturday edition every week, rarely any other day)

From time to time:
-Viz
-Uncut

Subscribe to The Word and Rock-a-Rolla (keeps me up to date with "alternative" music).

On the music front I also pick up Terrorizer and Mojo.

Regularly pick up Empire, but it's become a lot of puff-pieces over the past year.

Occasionally get Private Eye, but since the demise of Borders I've just not been exposed to as ,amy magazines as I used to.

The Word,of course.
Art Review.
The only regular purchases,Empire now and again same with Mojo.On the whole Books remain my preferred reading.

Never miss Viz - sometimes only one laugh in an entire issue, but their Christmas 2008 Victorian porn pastiche - Enrazzlement' was genius - and while I know they're still capable of stuff like that, I'll stay true.
Rarely miss Private Eye.
Uncut or Mojo if the cover story/cd piques my interest.
Had a sub to The Atlantic once -going to renew.
Papers? Maybe twice a week I'll take The Independent. On a Sunday it's a tossup between The Observer and The Irish Sunday Independent.

includes;

Independent
Word
Mojo
Uncut
Car (got every issue since 1963!)
Cycling Plus
MBR

So far looks like I'm the only one brave (or foolish) enough to admit to reading a railway magazine. I'm not a trainspotter though...honest! Used to buy evry issue of Car and Autosport but they seem increasingly irrelevant these days.

1) Word: subscriber
2) The Guardian on Saturdays; Guardian online the rest of the week
3) Empire; although its breathless, near apoplectic articles about films they have "exclusives" on being unbelievably, fantastically brilliant (which then get 2-stars at DVD release) is beginning to grate...
4) Mojo: Infrequently; about every third or fourth edition
5) Wired: always flick through; probably buy once ever four months
6) Waitrose food magazine: probably twice a year

R.I.P: Q
After 24 years of loyal service since edition one, this month I've finally decided to bin Q. May's copy, with the supposed free music, and cover that trails an article on Axl Rose, but in fact only name-checks him in a 54 word inclusion the size of three postage stamps as part of (takes breath)... yet another list article, just about did for me. That and the fact that there's not really anything to actually read (beyond John Niven's toxic cynicism).

I had the same slow fall out with Q that I had with NME many years ago: a creeping dissatisfaction, usually capped after reading each week's new edition with a vow (subsequently broken) to never buy it again because it had turned to pants.

I subscribe to:

The Word (nuff said)
PC Advisor (to keep abreast of techie stuff)
Conde Nast Traveller (to see where the other people go for their hols)

I buy:

Radio Times (the FPO likes to plan her viewing)
Private Eye (force of habit/good journalism/ good cartoons)

I buy the Saturday Telegraph for the supplements and the crossword and our local paper. All my other news comes online.

I look at other mags and get confused by the choice and indeed the point of some of them. The BBC are especially profligate with spin-off mags - Countryfile Monthly anyone? I turn my face against other music mags - loyalty you know!

My confession? Having been an avid NME & Melody Maker reader in my younger years, I gave up reading the music press on any regular basis until finding The Word. My first edition was January 2004; the one with BB King on the cover and with a feature about the music business entitled: Crisis? What Crisis?

It's fascinating to look back at what was being said. On the future of the album, Bill Flanagan said "The single song was the dominant unit in music sales - sheet music as well as records - from the beginning of the industry until well into the 1960s. That will be the case again."

Empire always used to be a bit on the mainstream side for me, but I find it perfect these days. Time was, I used to go to the cinema at least once or twice a week. Since kids, not so much. So it's at just the right level for me now, in that it's mostly focused on the big guns, but delves a little deeper with the big interview, the classic scene etc.

I am also a subscriber to The Wire magazine, but it tends to stay unread. Being a great big idiot, I subscribed by mistake, having misheard when a friend recommended The Word. I stuck it out gallantly, but I certainly won't be going within a mile of renewing: as much as I'd like to be interested in it, both the writing and the artists they write about just have me muttering "what a load of wank" within a paragraph or two. And into the recycling it goes, leaving me feeling just a tiny increment more stupid every month. God damn lump-sum subscriptions.

(Oh, just remembered - I buy Private Eye every couple of issues or so as well.)

...I love the new NME. The word count seems to have gone up. They've brought back singles reviews. They're paying attention to minor details like reviewing books and films (albeit in a small way). They've put Rihanna on one of the covers and it feels like they might be more prepared to cover pop properly from now on, rather than being dismissive.

Mind you I got very excited when Q got a make-over last autumn and that's gone by the wayside again.

Vogue is the king (or queen, or president) of magazines for me. Not just because of its long history but because it's so blooming stylish and beautiful to look at. I take most of the "opinion" contained within with a pinch of salt. But that might be snobbery on my part.

I also enjoy Heat from time to time. And now and then I'll buy London Review of Books or its New York equivalent. But there'll never be an adequate replacement for 1987-88 vintage Smash Hits - possibly the greatest thing ever published.

...which surprises me. I'm a casual film fan but always been rather disappointed when I've bought Empire. I usually buy the one that comes out at this time of year, previewing the big summer movies and also the issue at the end of the year with the best list.

subscribe to National Geographic

Buy papers sporadically (Irish Times/Sunday Tribune/Guardian/Observer)

been known to buy...
Wired,
Empire,
Sci-Fi Now,
Rugby World,
Various Family history magazines depending on content,
Newsweek/Time,
The Village,
BBC Focus

I forgot to mention Vanity Fair. Used to buy it almost every month, but now I seem to have dropped back to flicking through it in the shop but rarely committing. Doesn't seem to have as many must-read articles as it used to; either that, or they've been too specific about the inner hell of American politics that the piece hasn't made too much sense to this Limey.

When Word first started, I used to say to people that it had an element of Vanity Fair about it, and lo and behold Mark Ellen name-checked it as an influence. For a couple of years I used to think it was the best magazine on the planet, such was the pull of some of its articles: the report into Michael Jackson's on-going financial meltdown (and the presence of sinister PI's on his payroll) and the expose of America using so much uranium-tipped ammunition in Iraq (it's potential connection to Gulf War syndrome, and long-term consequences for the area) spring instantly to mind.

I have subscribed in the past to Mojo, Uncut, Q, Empire, When Saturday Comes, Fortean Times, Viz and some others I can't remember.

I now only subscribe to The Word and Private Eye.

I occasionally pick up Mojo or Uncut if I'm travelling and have run out of things to read and haven't got time to buy a book.

I haven't got around to subscribing to very much - I must like the monthly challenge of trying to work out where WH Smith has hidden my favourite magazines this time (RIP Borders).

Like others, I buy and read far too much e.g.

Fortean Times (still my most favourite magazine, excepting The Word of course)
The Word
BBC History
Wire (sometimes)
Vanity Fair (I like to see how the other half live - and some of the journalism is pretty good)
Focus
Sky at Night
...and pretty much anything else that takes my fancy. And a special mention for Nexus, which has the most barking mad conspiracy and New Age stuff and keeps me laughing for ages.

Still subscribe to Mojo (not for long I fear) but have pretty much given up on the music press apart from the 50s mag 'Now Dig This!'
I'm simply tired wading through pages and pages about Madonna et al to get to Tintern Abbey.

And, is it me, or does the 'Radio Times' simply not like television anymore?
Quite apart from their obsession with 'Dr. Who', I wrote a letter a few months ago about satellite stations 'editing' old programmes (e.g. 25% of Dennis Potter's 'Lipstick On Your Collar' was scraped on the 'Yesterday' channel) and I really had to explain (three times) why that was a bad thing.

I also subscribe to Granta which is quarterly.

I now rarely buy other music mags - never Q (that stopped about 7 years ago), MOJO very occasionally, Uncut hardly ever these days. Maybe it's because it nearly takes a month for me to get through the re-designed Word, so no need for anything else!

Read the Guardian most days and sometimes take the Observer

Finally signed up for a Word subscription after years of buying.

I also subscribe to Wired and Empire.

I keep meaning to ditch Empire, but have had it since issue 1 and can't break the habit.

Word (naturally)

Mojo

Uncut (occasionaly but I've started to lose interest)

Record Collector (I buy it occasionally, they've done some really good articles on the Who over the last few years)

Classic Rock

Guitar Player

The New Yorker

Maxim (North American and UK versions)

Sometimes I get the Playboy year end issue, last year's was a good one

Mad Magazine (I've taken to just reading it at the library, it's gone way down in quality lately)

In doctor and dentist waiting rooms I read Time, Macleans and Car & Driver

Vanity Fair - the US edition, of course.
New Yorker - ended subscription but still a stackload of old stuff to read.
The Word - new layout is good.
The Wire - for all the stuff you lot don't bother with.
Uncut - a longtime favourite
When Saturday Comes - best footy mag in the world.

are

Word,

The Week
http://www.theweek.co.uk/

and the excellent
Smithsonian Air & Space
http://www.airspacemag.com/

and I try to buy the Weekend FT as much for its mag as anything (though not quite the jewel it was under John Lloyd).

have included:

Spaceflight and JBIS
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/

Glimmer Train
http://www.glimmertrain.com/

Coevolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Review
http://wholeearth.com/history-whole-earth-review.php

Prospect

Economist

the New York Review of Books ...

and Hotdog. Sometimes I wonder where my brain went

but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now ...

is the only magazine I read regularly. I occasionally buy an Italian current affairs weekly called Internazionale when I can find it.

The Word
Mojo
Financial Times Deutschland

and read online
Irish Independent
Irish Times
Guardian
Telegraph
Times
Independent
Belfast Telegraph
Impartial Reporter
New York Times
occasional redtops
various hifi
The Onion

New Yorker.

I love the cartoon caption competition (someone recently blogged that you can apply the phrase "Christ, what an asshole" to every one and it'll be applicable).

Read/buy:

Vanity Fair
Word
Viz
The Monthly (Aus current affairs/culture - yes it exists here)

I used to love the first wave of nineties film mags such as Empire and Neon (what a brilliant mag what a sad loss).

Subscribe to Mojo, pick up Word every month, no subscription at the mo.

Maybe six times a year: Private Eye
Maybe once or twice a year: Uncut, MacUser

Bought Empire's 250th edition for want of something to read and thought it was pretty bad.

I had a gift subscription to Wired for a year: enjoyed it but didn't feel compelled to keep it up.

I read a lot online: Use Instapaper to back up articles recommended on Twitter for later reading.

MrsDrJ subscribes to The New Yorker. It's a fantastic magazine but I never have the time to read any of it so I see all these great articles pass me by. She used to subscribe to VF, but it's self-righteousness got very boring. She has to buy The Irish Times on a Saturday.

So, here's a question: Does ANYONE read Monocle?

"BBC Homes & Antiques" AND "Word" then?

Other regular reads include the Radio Times (for the Tuesday train journey home) and a monthly rummage through Mr Mandy's Focus mag. Eclectic or what?

(though I guarantee my fingerprints have never been found on his monthly haul of the many and varied versions of "Old Motor Cycles Lovingly Restored At Enormous Cost Using Rusty Widgets Shipped From Around The World Magazine")

Subscribe to:
1. Word
2. Runners World

Buy, most months:
1. Olive (Food, Cooking)
2. BBC Food (Food, Cooking)
3. Four Four Two (Football)

Buy, occasionally:
1. Esquire
2. GQ
3. Empire (as with previous comments, with a 10 month son, my trips to the cinema are very rare these days)

Newspaper - Sunday Times

Word
Permaculture
Cycle (with CTC membership)
Presence (haiku mag)

Buy regularly...

Fortean Times (highly entertaining)
Private Eye
Viz
Wired
Mustard (comedy mag)
Mojo
Modern Toss

I also read my daughter's NME, which is much improved of late as noted above.