Magazine

 
Excerpted from Wikipedia

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine
Date: 23-Jan-20165

Magazines are publications, usually periodical publications, that are printed or electronically published (the online versions are called online magazines.) They are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by prepaid subscriptions, or a combination of the three. At its root, the word “magazine” refers to a collection or storage location. In the case of written publication, it is a collection of written articles. This explains why magazine publications share the word root with gunpowder magazines, artillery magazines, firearms magazines, and, in various languages although not English, retail stores such as department stores.

 
Definition

By definition, a “magazine” paginates with each issue starting at page three, with the standard sizing being 8 3/8″ x 10 7/8″. However, in the technical sense a “journal” has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus Business Week, which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the Journal of Business Communication, which starts each volume with the winter issue and continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, an example being the Journal of Accountancy. Academic or professional publications that are not peer-reviewed are generally professional magazines. The fact that a publication calls itself a “journal” does not make it a journal in the technical sense. The Wall Street Journal is actually a newspaper.

 
 
Original Content

Magazines and scholarly journals represent a far richer source of focused information than do newspapers. They contain far less unwanted information and offer much more depth and context. They are also in a much more convenient format.

To stay current in your subjects of interest, you should try to find the best magazine devoted to that subject and subscribe to it.

You should always look over the table of contents and read articles in order of interest to you. Never just flip randomly through the pages or you may end up reading something of lesser interest and then have no time to read the more interesting article.

Useful information in magazines:
– Method (how to) information (e.g. appearance, relationships, investing)
– Home ideas
– Purchase options

Part of your monthly (or weekly?) process must be collecting, sorting, and binding useful and beautiful information from current issues of magazines. Otherwise, they just accumulate.

Currently, it takes about 1.5 hours to read/flag one issue of Kiplinger’s magazine and about 1 hour to copy the best pages.

With more and more magazine content available on the World Wide Web, it’s becoming less and less necessary to store physical, paper magazines.

 
 
Specific Magazines

The following is a list of magazines containing content of interest to me:

 
 
Examples of Valuable Information Contained in Magazines

Personal Finance and Economics Magazines

– Strategies for drawing on savings during retirement (e.g. types of accounts to tap first, when to start taking Social Security payments, etc).
– Strategies for investing during various phases of the business cycle (e.g. consumer staples during downturns)
– Current state of the U.S. and world economy.

 
Local City and Region Magazines

– New restaurants to try.
– New bars, distilleries, and brewpubs to try.
– New local activities to try.
– Ideas for weekend getaways.

 
Science and Technology Magazines

– New discoveries in astronomy, biology, paleontology, psychology and neuroscience.
– New technologies (such as CRISPR/cas9 gene editing).
– Explanation of natural phenomena.

 
News Magazines

– New cultural trends.
– New scientific discoveries.
– New technological breakthroughs.