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OT: Is it good bye to Reader's Digest?

I quit reading RD years ago. It got to where there was more advertising than article.
 
It's a heavily slanted Christian publication, and, as Willy said - mostly advertisements now.

Won't be missed too much methinks.
 
Willy

While sitting in the waiting rooms of various doctors' offices, I have found that most magazines are more advertising than articles. Some magazines are really nothing more than $6 collections of print ads. Women's magazines, especially those geared toward decorating, are the worst. There was a time when one could open magazines like Better Homes and Gardens and actually read some recipes or some neat "how to" articles. Now when one thumbs through that magazine, it is nothing but page after page of advertising, with very few articles mixed in.

Why anyone would still be willing to pay upwards of $6 for a magazine that is 80 to 90% advertising, I haven't the foggiest clue.

OBIO
 
I used to subscribe to it many years ago when I still lived in the UK and bought a number of their 'specialist' books, atlases and record sets.

The only time I read it now is when I am in the Doctor's office and like H I tend to just read the footnotes and funnies sections.
 
I've got a box full of old RD issues from the late 40s, 50s and early 60s when it was still good reading material. A heap of fun to look at what adverts were in those. But the new ones... blah.
 
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