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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Readly - Magazines |
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| Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 11:28 | |
Jayenkai
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Just discovered this. https://gb.readly.com/ Readily is a magazine reading app. £7.99 a month to get access to an absolute fuckton of magazines. Had a quick check, and they have both RetroGamer and GamesTM, as well as an RPi magazine, official Xbox magazine, and mountains more content. You can grab the app and start the (14 day I think?) free trial. I might end up subscribing as, although I don't really read these things anymore, they're handy to have to scroll through on occasion. Hmmm.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 12:37 | |
steve_ancell
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Problems with today's computer mags: they are unjustifyingly expensive and there's not even enough content to maintain a semi, let alone a geek's boner. Geeks of today don't know what they're missing, we had excellent content, and could afford more than one or mabe two mags and still have enough pocket money left for a McDonald's on the way home from Churchill Square. Big bugger do I miss the LizTing's column, Aunty John, and of course The Hairy Hacker's Lair. |
| Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 12:47 | |
rockford
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Yeah, I remember ye goode olde days of computer magazines - Amstrad Computer User, Your Computer, Amstrad Action, Amtixx, ACE, Mean Machines, C&VG, Computing Weekly, Your Computer, then all the Amiga mags. I got them all and loved them to death. I do currently subscribe to EDGE, GamesTM and RetroGamer. They aren't the same as BITD, but nothing else is either. Including me. |
| Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 13:57 | |
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GfK |
The last magazine I ever bought was GamesTM. I used to subscribe to it but I took exception to the back half of the magazine being dedicated to page after page of 0898 "Slaglines". I took issue with GamesTM over it as they were at the time peddling themselves as a family publication, and I thought it was totally inappropriate to have so much of that kind of thing. They disagreed. |
| Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 15:01 | |
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rockford
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They've obviously changed their minds and agreed with your stance, as they don't run ads like that any more.
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| Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 16:37 | |
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steve_ancell
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The last mag I bought was PC Format, then I realised I was paying 6 quid for stuff that I can view on the internet.
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| Thu, 13 Oct 2016, 01:31 | |
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GfK |
My only argument for buying magazines was "you can't read the internet on the toilet" - obviously with smartphones, you can now. Disclaimer: i am not writing this on the toilet. |
| Thu, 13 Oct 2016, 01:53 | |
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steve_ancell
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 Disclaimer: i am not writing this on the toilet.  --- I saw a copy of New Scientist in ASDA yesterday, fucking £3.95 and it was thinner than an iPhone 7. I've seen bog roll thicker than that! 
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| Thu, 13 Oct 2016, 23:20 | |
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zzoom |
I bought a copy of New Scientist recently at the 4 quid price tag. Yep, it seems as expensive as hell, but I think all mags are struggling against the 'free' information source of the internet. I maybe buy New Scientist once or twice a year - its rare to get such a good amount of quality information without scouring the internet for ages. I've also managed to break my 'habit' of getting a 6 quid computer mag. I used to love CUAmiga, I still have the last copy with the big foot on the front. Oh, the halcyon days of Your Sinclair with games you could type in yourself all the time wondering 'will this even work, will the data storage device work after I've typed stuff in for ages? (that will have been the C60 Cassette tape). 
-=-=- Happy coding!
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| Thu, 13 Oct 2016, 23:46 | |
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Jayenkai
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I feel so privileged growing up with an Amstrad CPC and it's wonderful little floppy drive! Never had those issues. Always saved!! True, the listings still didn't always work, but at least I never lost the stuff I'd been typing.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 10:10 | |
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steve_ancell
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I also had the external floppy drive, very handy piece of kit that was!
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| Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 11:03 | |
Dabz
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I still buy Viz on occasions me, not much for the cartoons (Partial to Sid the Sexist and Rodger Mellie though), but, I mostly like the daft articles, readers letters, top tips and that... "I think our star the Sun is highly overrated. At least the moon gives a bit of light off at night. The Sun only shines in the daytime when it's light anyway. - Alan Skewer, e-mail" Stuff like that amuses me... Dabz -=-=- Intel Core i5 6400 2.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB), 8Gig DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 64bit
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| Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 13:33 | |
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rockford
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Looks like the end may be in sight for some of the mags I read - the publishers, Imagine and Future Publishing are merging. Generally things go bye-bye when companies merge. EDGE will survive (IMHO) as it's an industry standard. GamesTM might, but I don't hold out hope for Retro Gamer in the long run, as it's pretty niche. As Egon once stated, "Print is dead." |
| Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 13:55 | |
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Jayenkai
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Wow, really? Yeah, that's the end of a lot of similar mags, and if a lot of those mags disappear, it's going to be hard to get subscribers to bother to switch. IMO! The only reason most subscribers are still subscribed, is because they're happy with what they have. Ask them to chance, and it ain't going to happen. .. this could all be disastrous! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 15:23 | |
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GfK |
you should get on Twitter and follow @TwopTwips. Topical one from yesterday in response to the Unilever/Marmite shenanigans: TRICK people into buying jars of brown,rotting yeast by simply telling them there's a shortage of brown, rotting yeast |
| Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 16:17 | |
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rockford
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LOL. That's definitely my opinion of Marmite. Foul stuff that it is. That goes for Twiglets too. Bleurgh!!!
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