Magazines

I have back issues in the loft for everyday, elector and practical from years ago.  when they had projects for add ons for your ZX spectrum!

I then had circuit cellar and MagPi for a while too.  But now go to WHsmith and have a browse and pick one up if I see something that grabs my attention.

I also have a stash of mini magazines and in them you see the same articles cropping up so I stopped them as well and just get one when it grabs my attention.  The free calendar in miniworld was an utter disappointment this year as only one month had minis  each month was a different advert for a different magazine by the publisher.

Nearly all of my reading now is on line , or I watch youtube, which has better content than the tv most of the time...

These are only part of the books that I packed and shipped when I moved 2 years ago.  I still have many boxes that I have not unpacked (and may never).  I am planning on building a shop/lab/office soon and hopefully once I move all of my tools/equipment into the shop, there might be enough room for more books.

Gene

I still look for good reference books from time to time, to add to my library.

I need to add to my library ... not the books but the storage area.

We had our placed painted a couple of years back and hence my library area got put away ... It's still put away, and I'm now deciding if and what I return to it.

I use to subscribe to Circuit Cellar, Byte, Dr Dobbs and also receive multiple industry magazines.  It got to the point where the quality started dropping and they were not longer worth the money or the time that it took to read them.  The electronic copies of the magazines never seem right to me (I have a strange ability to pick up a magazine an flip to what I need, and the digital ones don't flip).  I have found my library of past issues do come in helpful from time-to-time.  I had one issue of Circuit Cellar that I took from job-to-job as it had some great articles on digital filtering that seem to always put into use.

Like many of the other responses, these days, the internet seems to be my number one choice for most of my questions and/or interests that need answers.  I still look for good reference books from time to time, to add to my library.

Gene

I do dig back into it every so often, I think I’ll check their Pi and Arduino titles though - thanks for the heads up!

It looks like you can get Elektor back issues on DVD-ROM as well.

https://www.elektor.com/cd-dvds/

Then there were the Elektor 301, 302, 303... Circuits books which were quite good - I still have a few of the earlier ones.

I see that Elektor Publishing has expanded a bit with titles on Arduino, BBC micro:bit, ESP32 etc.

https://www.elektor.com/books/     

It was an excellent magazine for many years. I still have most of the ones I received when I subscribed to it.

Yes I do, and I subscribed to it too. Several years ago I went through all my old tech magazines looking for ones with at least one

article good enough to keep and threw away the rest. At least one Micro Cornucopia made the cut. Some of the others were:

PC Techniques, MicroComputer, Microsystems, Micro Systems (a different magazine), Windows/DOS Developers Journal,

Programmers Journal, and Embedded Systems Programming (another aimed more at professionals).

I used to get Dr Dobbs, very educational

We get Elektor (might have stopped lately) and Silicon Chip at work.

Unfortunately Silicon Chip tends to be a little amatuer, but some of the content is interesting.

Elecktor was a bit the other way with quite complicated projects and boards that required sending away.

I often pickup a copy of Linux Format but it requires stopping at the particular retailer that carries it.

I also read that interesting one called TheShed, however there is only one electronics artlcle and it's usually by some bloke no-one has heard of.

I still prefer paper to electronic, mainly because you can read it where ever, you can skip pages easily which some apps allow.

A large A4 sized tablet would possibly suffice if the world of paper disappeared.

I did download MagPi for a while, but I never seemed to have time to read the articles, howevr eventually there will be a day when I have time, but no ability to read or do the projects ... whichever comes first.

Mark