Magazines don't work for me - too many ads, too few ideas, and the projects are too specific - not to mention the storage issues. Also, I find magazines affect me the way a trip to the mall does: I see things that I didn't know existed, and find that I now desperately need them! Magazines end up leaving me feeling dissatisfied...
As many have said above, I prefer books that focus on a particular technique that I can learn and apply to my own ideas, rather than books of patterns. For any specific, need-it-RIGHT-NOW information it's the web for me (and usually QB, of course).
Alison