Despite all of the information available on the Internet and the portability of laptops and cell phones that can be used to access the Web, I still like old fashioned magazines. They are light weight, require no batteries, recharging or back-lights. They can be rolled up and tucked in a jacket pocket. The sharpness of the image and the clarity of color is pretty good, too. Also, despite my daily browsing of the the Internet and subscription to numerous RSS feeds I still find something I did not know on the printed pages. Yes, professional journalists are still needed despite the numerous amateur bloggers, such as myself, making their contributions to the collective. When there are portable devices that are affordable, flexible (meaning, able to be rolled up) and and easy to use I might consider giving up my magazines, but that does not appear to be happening anytime too soon.

Unless you have money to burn you should subscribe to magazines you read on a regular basis. You can subscribe in a number of different ways:

  1. Fill out the postcards that fall out of the magazines, get a bill and pay by check via snail mail. This is the old fashioned approach.
  2. Subscribe via the magazine drives that schools run as fundraisers. If you have kids, nephews, nieces, grandchildren or neighbors with kids you have probably been solicited with these offers.
  3. Go to the magazine's web site and fill out the online forms and pay by credit card.
  4. Or you could go to Amazon and select the magazines you want and after a couple clicks if you already have an account with Amazon you'll have a subscription at the same rate as the above methods but in much less time.