Mark

6 or 7 I think

All free online delivery though (via zinio, but they are about to run out and I'm not paying to renew them)

Private Eye and Linux Format.

I used to get PC Pro, but budget reasons meant I had to cancel my subscription. Linux Format may soon follow.

I though that T3 and Stuff were direct competitors, both slugging it out in the Gadgets/Technology/lifestyle field. Don't you find that they just cover the same material?

For example, I buy PCGAMER every month from Future Publishing, who also publish PCZONE. However, apart from the odd exclusive both magazines cover (in general) the same content just wirtten to address a slightly different demographic. I was just wondering if that was the case with T3 and Stuff and, if so, why you subscribe to both? I'll be honest, the last time I looked at both of them they were scarily familiar, reviewing the same products, attending the same social/cultural events, even writing similar features etc etc etc. Was this just a one-off?

Or is it just for the cover totty?

None these days. I used to get Custom PC but didn't renew the subscription in time and haven't felt like I've lost out terribly since.

They both cover slightly different markets.
T3 aims a bit higher and has a home section, it's the middle market one compared to Stuff & Smartlife (really, really cool but expensive toys).

I read through a magazine withing an evening or two so I need all of them to keep me busy.

Just CPC for me. I buy PCpro and Mac Format occasionally though.

I havent read CPC in what feels like ages now. I was a regular but never subscribed. I've kind of gone off PC gaming as a whole which was what generated my interest in the mag in the first place (overclocking, modding, etc).

I subscribe to Practical Photography. Its fairly cheap, came with a nice little gift and has been a valuable resource over the last 18 months.

For the last 10 years, just PCpro.

Someone else usually reads them, but it's not unusual for them to go unread by myself. I nearly cancelled for that reason, but I'd just missed the subscription date. I do wish they'd send a reminder before they take the ever increasing amount of wonga from your account.

I used to get an electronics magazine too, but it reached the point where 90% of the projects were PIC based and it was cheaper to buy a finished product in Tesco.
I briefly subscribed to Scientific America. New Scientist comes out far too often to stand a chance of reading it.
At one time I also subscribed to Readers Digest. They were a good toilet read, and it was dirt cheap.

Ah, a fellow RD refugee who managed to flee their grasping clutches. I believe we are a select few.

We once got "given" a RD subscription for a year, I started to wonder what we'd done to upset them.

Me too. Dumped tonnes of magazines, but I still have a lot of books. They did do some excellent books, but once they got you hooked, it was a devil's own job to escape again. They haven't found me again, since I've moved to Germany - although you can buy the German edition in the newsagents here.

Two free ones, both from the IET.

E&T is one, and their education one is the other.

just CPC for me, but mostly just for the reviews, what with news and such being on tinterweb anyway. i do have a fair number of review websites bookmarked, but i dont trust most of them as much as CPC, for some odd reason

I don't even get the competition bumf any more. Now that really was a fight