DISQUS

Discovering Dad: What Are You Reading Right Now?

  • Corvida Raven · 1 year ago
    lol wow! I don't read any magazine. Why when everything's on the internet for free? :)

    She definitely got you though. That's a lot of magazines. Did you read them all?
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    No - that's the problem! I do most, if not all, of my reading online! I buy these subs just to make my daughter happy.
  • agoodhusband · 1 year ago
    SEO for Dummies, The Compleat Gentleman, Einstein's Bio, The Nation (mag), and Mother Jones (mag).
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    I love biographies. I recently got the John Adams bio by David McCullough on CD to listen to in the car. Good list Cory!
  • RobMonroe · 1 year ago
    Our daughter is only in day care, but they sold pizzas already. Spent a small bundle on those.

    We get Scientific American (wife is a Chemistry Teacher) and Parents. Low doses of magazines for our low amount of free time!

    I would like to point out that the magazine on top of your pile is Costco Connections. If the school sold you a subscription to that, you got suckered, man.
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    I have been known to be a sucker, especially for my daughter! There's also a couple of annual reports for companies we own stock on the pile too, and some free mags that I still get from the last business I owned. It's a mess!
  • tony · 1 year ago
    my subscriptions:
    Best Life (though I feel a little too young for this)
    fast company (great stuff on biz, tech, and design)
    Relevant (I feel a little too old for this one)
    Good (really cutting-edge stuff on social responsibility)

    what I read when I have 30 minutes at a Borders/B&N:
    the Economist (though I admit, a lot goes over my head)
    ESPN
    Men's Health
    Inc
    Fortune
    Time
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    Good list Tony! I used to read Fast Company, but now I just visit their website and look for articles by them on social media sites.
  • jason · 1 year ago
    That's a lot of magazines. Currently, I have no subscriptions to magazines. I pick them up on the newstand on occasion.
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    I have a free newstand over here :-) Come take whatever you want Jason!
  • dadshouse · 1 year ago
    It's great you're supporting your own kids. My pet-peeve is when a parent brings an order form into work and guilts you into supporting their kids' school. Unless I pull the same trick, that parent isn't supporting my kids' school. And if they're at the same school, we don't need to support it twice.
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    Yeah, I agree. I would never take a fundraising thing to work. We usually ask family members or neighbors without kids, but that's about it. If there's raffle tickets, I'm screwed because I usually end up buying most of them myself.
  • RC of strangeculture · 1 year ago
    no joke, i just threw away a ton of magazines. it's pretty crazy.
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    I keep kidding myself that I might actually read some of these on an imaginary flight to nowhere in the not to distant future. I should just shit can them.
  • Daniel · 1 year ago
    I don't really like magazines... far too many ads. Usually the only magazine I read, even semi-regularly, is Men's Health.
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    I don't like them either! The only reason I think they stay in business is through these stupid fundraising efforts - everyone is a sucka for kids selling stuff!
  • Ashleye · 1 year ago
    I get Self, Real Simple, and Angels On Earth. Occasionally, I will read the Entrepreneur magazines, Mental Floss, Crafts mags, Parenting mags, and Photography mags....at the book store. lol. Then, I keep a pen handy to write down any info I want to google or websites...

    I have way too many interests to subscribe to all the magazines I like...
  • jnbammer · 1 year ago
    My wife loves to read books and magazines, including many of the same kinds you listed Ashleye. I used to like to as well, but lately, I've just been getting most of my news/articles online. Thanks for the comment!
  • Phil · 1 year ago
    I have a love/hate relationship with magazines. I love having something quick to read, but it seems like I never have the time to savor everything in an issue. Right now I subscribe to Smithsonian, National Geographic, Popular Mechanics, and Wired.