Magazines

I used to be an avid reader of Practical Electronics back in my youth but stopped reading when I realised that the projects were just repeating again and again.

Do people still read electronics magazines? Are they still relavent?

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dougw over 7 years ago +6

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…
mcb1 over 7 years ago +6

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…
e14phil over 7 years ago +4

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

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beacon_dave over 7 years ago

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.
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beacon_dave over 7 years ago

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.
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