Magazines

I read Nuts and Volts, as well as Everyday Practical Electronics when I can

find it. For me, both are useful.

Same here; I also read Wireless World and something called, I think, Elektor. I don't read any electronics mags these days.

Neil

Wish they carried Elektor in the bookstores here. I read that when I lived

in Germany, and have seen a couple of English-language issues.

I think I subscribed to Elektor and received in the post. It was a long time ago - maybe 40 years or so.

I started off with Electronics Today International as it was the only one that the newsagent stocked at the time. Later changed to Elektor Electronics.

I seem to recall a stage when the prices increased dramatically and all you got in return were more adverts. At that point I switched to books which cost only slightly more but had the additional benefit of being more tailored to the particular subject areas I was interested in.

I also started on DIYODE but found myself getting so far behind on reading them I abandoned it. There is a free version of that with adverts.

Truthfully I get most of my content online. But I do still subscribe to MagPi for Raspberry Pi.

I used to read a lot of magazines - Electronics, Byte, PC World, Electronics Today and a slew of others, but that was all in the last century. Since then I occasionally glance through EP&T because they keep sending them, but I generally don't read paper magazines any more. The coverage is no longer comprehensive, quality has suffered as demand has dropped and the internet has taken over. Search engines are a huge improvement in some senses, but browsing and serendipitous discovery are problematic with the internet. If magazines were still as good as they were in their heyday, I would still read them.

There was a time when I read about 60 magazines a month.

Now, the only one I read regularly is the MagPi magazine.

With web access, I can get much faster access to trending issues and specific information, so in many respects, magazines have gone away for me.

DAB

>The coverage is no longer comprehensive, quality has suffered as demand has dropped and the internet has taken over.

Totally agree. It seems I learn more from the ads than from the content. I kind of wonder if that's because the people writing the content are the younger journalist/writer types and so the things they can write about are generally things we've already learned in the past. Like all those "10 things you didn't know..." or "info that will change your life!" memes that drive me nuts with useless repetitive info. And the power company teaching me how to cut my energy bills by turning off the lights - something our parents drilled into us as kids!

I receive a couple of contractor magazines... because I'm a software contractor and that's pretty much the same thing as a construction contractor , but I love them for the things I learn... from the ads

The ads point out new technologies that are making life easier. So I know I can add a bathroom in my basement at minimal cost, I know there's newer better roofing underlays and interesting insulations and building panels and methods.

I'll probably use a lot of that info to build a new shed soon.

-Nico