Magazines for your summer holiday?

I don't take any. Just books and/or Kindle.
Too much celeb stuff - I'm just not interested and don't even know who most of them are! - too many ads, too much Perfect Lifestyle stuff.
I did subscribe to Coast for a year, but didn't renew.
But I'm another who enjoys Private Eye.

We get a few local 'Perfect Lifestyle' free mags through the door - full of ads for mega expensive houses, ditto kitchens and plastic surgery/Botox, etc.
Those mostly go in the recycling unread, but Dh has been known to have a flick through while on the loo...

Far North,since when was growing up tedious? I found it the exact opposite.

Don't take any of the popular weeklies though I may have a look in the hairdresser's. I subscribe to Conde Naste Traveller, Devon Life & Saga magazine - all provide interesting & informative reads & great photos. However, never take them on hold & prefer a well-stocked Kindle

When I am off on a trip I buy Womans Weekly and Psychologies

I have a subscription for Yours magazine which is very good value and great for the mature person. Also like Healthy mag from Holland and Barrett which has brilliant articles.

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Skweek1 the Womans Weekly Fiction Special is good. It's monthly.
People's Friend and (I think) Take a Break also do Fiction Specials.
I like to have one of them for travelling.

I like the Woman's Weekly fiction specials for holidays.

Had a subscription to Woman &Home given to me as a birthday present once and I was unimpressed with it. Hardly anything in it to read as it was mostly adverts, and the fashion bits were no use to me with items featured all costing many hundreds of pounds, well out of my price range.

I agree about People's Friend, Jane10, as I sometimes have stories in there too! Woman's Weekly and My Weekly are not too celebrity focussed - more like Woman and Woman's Own used to be when my mum bought them.

I subscribe to the Readly app, and can choose from hundreds of mags for £7.99 a month to read on my iPad. I reckon that's about the equiv of two glossies. You can download your favourites before you leave home. Do like to buy Private Eye occasionally, even if don't always agree with its politics ?

People's Friend still has decent fiction and can't find any others these days. Won't read celebrity tittle-tattle, so don't read newspapers, any other magazines. Tend to take a Hanjie/Griddlers or Logical Problems book or magazine.

I get GH free with my Lloyd's account but it is quite boring. It is called a lifestyle choice and none of the other mags or other choices appeal to me, so it keeps dropping through the door. I glance then pass it on.

Gave up on Cosmo 30 years ago and haven't read a magazine since. I take a well-loaded Kindle on holiday and am never lost for reading matter.

How tedious for you, emilie, but nice of you to drop in on this thread about magazines.

Far North,none.I grew up instead.

Ever since doing my apprenticeship (Bookbinding) I've always associated magazines with old people. It was part of my job to get their mags every week.

In print, Good Housekeeping say about twice a year, usually including the Christmas issue - used to read this avidly when a young, dewy-eyed bride many years ago, now seems increasingly repetitive and celeb focussed but still worth a quick flick through occasionally. The odd issue of Coast. Private Eye on subscription. But the library also makes GH, Olive, Lonely Planet and various other glossies available free online, which I do dip into when I have the time and can remember the login - worth finding out if your library does something similar. My historic favourite was Nova in the sixties.

Oh? Which magazines do you read, emilie?

I take books, my husband takes his e-reader...I'm not interested in magazines. All my books come from the charity shop and when I have finished them I leave them either on a cruise ship or an airport for someone else to read. You may say, books weigh a bit, the way I see it the books are not coming back with me so I have an allowance in my suitcase for items I buy abroad.

Magazines are simply comics for immature adults.

I have a lifetime subscription for Saga magazine that I got as a birthday present ten years ago.
It was an excellent read, but unfortunately changed its format and contributors some months ago and I don't enjoy it as much.
Does anyone remember Nova, Cosmo. and She magazines?

Only take paperback novels on holiday usually bought in charity shops or swapped with friends. Even then I don"t always read them. Our library has magazines you can take out for a week at a time.....only the expensive glossy sort though so occasionally might borrow one if something of interest catches my eye. Otherwise have"nt bought them for a long time. The books I buy to keep are non fiction and usually from The Works.

I buy woman's weekly and my weekly each week. So I will buying them when I go away I also take a couple of books too,

I join the majority here in that I cannot remember when I last bought a magazine and yet I used to do so with regularity. I think the celebrity emphasis was a huge contributary factor not helped by the fact that I didn't know who half these celebrities were. (Wish they were aware of that!). However I do buy one magazine indirectly and that is the supplement in the DM on a Saturday. I find it an all rounder and containing considerable constructive information otherwise I wouldn't be having a paper at all these days.

I, along with many previous posters, have not bought a magazine for years. I have as much interest in 'celebrity' lifestyle as they would have in mine! Although I am a voracious reader, my reading matter is of the charity shop book sale variety. I have just stocked up on books from the local library sale, paying 10p each. Why would I buy magazines?