retired2pa

I quit buying quilting mags a long time ago. I very seldom used any of the patterns and I find that I can get all the patterns or ideas I want right off the internet....for nothing. I can't believe how expensive magazines have gotten! I'm not going to spend $10 for a magazine I'll probably look at once and then it'll go in my mag bin. I'd rather spend that $10 on fabric :)

Moonpi

I buy them used on EBay, and pass them on when I'm done. My library does not have even one. I use books and magazines to learn techniques, and not to recreate existing quilts in general.

Pam B

I quit buying quilting magazines, recipe magazines and novels. Nothing gripes me more than a magazine in plastic. LOL I check them out from my public library. I see lots of pretty things in magazines but, honestly, I can't say I have ever made any of them. And, I get really tired of all the pages of advertising. One of the ways I save money. I am really getting cheap these days...in fact, I was in a bookstore yesterday and shocked my DH by NOT purchasing any novels (I do not care for the novel selection at the public library..to heavy on mysteries). I have given away boxes and boxes of magazines and novels this summer. I am going to purchase a NOOK and download novels from now on. I am simply running out of bookcase shelf space in my home.

retired2pa

Pam...we have a wonderful used book store in our town so when I buy a paperback (it's usually around a dollar or less) and I take it back the next time to get another one I get a certain percent of what the original price was and so I have lots of "credit" towards my future purchases. I never buy a "new" paperback any more.

janRN

I also quit buying books-got a Kindle. Before that we had shelves built in the bedroom because we had so many books-we both read a lot.

As for not wanting a mag with dog-eared pages and fingerprints, Jackie, how do you decide which one to purchase if you can't look at it? This was my original rant because I haven't purchased a mag in over a year. And you know they say you can't judge a book by it's cover; I imagine that holds true for mags, too. I think putting them in plastic discourages people from buying them. All the magazine and newspaper editors are bemoaning the fact that subscriptions and purchases are down due to the internet. They are shooting themselves in the foot as far as I'm concerned.

ganny

I was looking at magazines at Wal-Mart just the other day and not a one in plastic. I get several subscriptions (just to have something to read and enjoy them) and some of them are in plastic. But have not seen them on the shelves in plastic around here.

mtnmama

I do subscribe to three different quilting magazines and I do enjoy getting them in the mail and drooling over them. However after a few years you get loaded with mags. I do look in the store and the only ones I find in plastic are usually the ones that have an extra pattern or supplement of some sort. I can understand those being wrapped up. After getting the mags for a while, I do get tired of all the advertisements. I know they do that to supplement the mag but I don't want to see adds for clothes and my quilting magazine.

Sadiemae

Both Wal-Marts here have Fons & Porter in plastic.

Ada Shiela

Magazines have long since been wrapped in plastic bags, especially if more than one is offered at a time for 'bargain price' That is to stop us taking up space whilst reading magazines in newsagents and any of us lucky enough to have idetic memories can take designs and info without paying for them :roll: Some newsagents have signs asking us not to read before purchase 8-)

Ada Shiela

Didn't think of 'thumbing through before' that could be a health risk if people moisten their thumb in mouth and then turn pages :shock: