🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Peter Flass wrote:


> Indeed. Just moving the stacks I enjoyed looking at the covers and
> remembering the great stories. Surprizingly I do recall a lot of them.
>
At one point I purged a lot of radio and electronic magazines, pulling out 
the articles I wanted to keep and recycling the rest.

What I miss is taking out those magazines and reading through them, or 
even just glancing through them.  I have the "good" articles (though my 
interests could change) but that's not the same thing.  Luckily, a lot of 
them have been digitized and I can download them, but reading on an 
ereader isn't the same either.  It's not like buying the magazine at the 
newsstand decades ago, and hurrying home to read it carefully. I miss 
magazines in general, because they've gotten expensive, and seem to have 
less of interest per issue (I'm not sure if that's me, or the magazines 
are printing less of interest).  There are some great deals, subscribe to 
some digital magazine program and get endless magazines for ten dollars a 
month, I'd try to read them all,  but I'm not sure I want more digital 
stuff coming in.  Magazines are a place away from the screen.  Every so 
often I find some exotic magazines at used book sales (as opposed to piles 
of National Geographic and Architecture Digest) and that's fun, kind of 
like the old days when magazines were cheap and I'd sample different 
things for the sake of something new.

I got National Geographic on DVD a few years ago, over a hundred years for 
twenty dollars, and I still haven't installed it.  Nice to access specific 
articles, but not the same thing as going through the boxes uncovering 
things.

   Michael