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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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  • 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.

  • in reply to dougw

    Don't forget Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, and Circuit Cellar (still around). More for professionals but still full of interesting ideas (at least in the

    "good old days") Electronic Design, EDN (Electronic Design News), and Computer Design.

     

    For software there was Dr Dobbs (Running light without Overbyte), and C Users Group.

     

    Plus a whole slew of hardware and software magazines that only lasted a few years and which I still have a few back issues of.

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  • in reply to dougw

    Don't forget Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, and Circuit Cellar (still around). More for professionals but still full of interesting ideas (at least in the

    "good old days") Electronic Design, EDN (Electronic Design News), and Computer Design.

     

    For software there was Dr Dobbs (Running light without Overbyte), and C Users Group.

     

    Plus a whole slew of hardware and software magazines that only lasted a few years and which I still have a few back issues of.

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