Why I Renewed My MR Subscription

[ho modern modeler]

I've been renewing year-to-year because it's only a matter of time before they announce that they're going digital and stopping the printed version.

As for the content I've enjoyed the last couple of years and I still think Neil is doing an awesome job.

[selector]

I have never subscribed, but I purchase five or six issues each year at the news stand if the contents look interesting.  I had thought that the staff had made a concerted effort to improve the appeal to people other than newcomers to the hobby or to the armchair modellers.  The past 18 months or so have been pretty good, or at least improved.

I slouch too much and too long at a computer most days, and the thoughts of extending that bad condition to read a magazine isn't very appealing to me.  The only ezine I read is Model Railroad Hobbyist 'cuz that's how it comes to me.  I prefer to sit back on a comfy chair and read MR holding it in my hands.

-Crandell

[dominic c]

tstage

Although I've been a regular subscriber over the past few years, I'm probably not going to reup this next time around.  Like this forum, I'm finding less and less that I enjoy about it.

I decided this past year to try the digital version for the extra $12/month.  That was pretty much a waste of money.  While the zoom feature was kinda handy, I much preferred the hard copy.  Reading articles online is okay.  Reading a periodical cover-to-cover, however, just isn't practical for me.

Tom

Tom is it because you seen that, read that already? The articles? Same ole same ole on this forum? I'm very interested. I want to know this so I can anticipate the wall before it happens.

Joe C

[BRAKIE]

I been reading MR since I learned how to read in grade school way back in the early 50s.and I will continue to read MR but,with a twist..I now read MR on my Kindle Fire.

[rrebell]

Why I didn't is twofold, one is that reading paper has become hard for me and even though I could go digital for an extra fee, it kinda goes against the grain as a lot of the extra videos are not of interest to me and I can find lots on youtube anyway, two, a majority of articles just don't fit into my intrest  (anything beyond 1940).

[csxns]

cedarwoodron

cannot part with an old friend

Just wish the ole timers were still living and running Kalmbach.

[BroadwayLion]

In spite of the dearth of subway related stories, I continue to subscribe. I am quite scandalized by the prices of locomotives. However, I enjoy reading it. Maybe *I* should write an article if I want to see subways (or LIONS) in the mag.

ROAR

[tstage]

Although I've been a regular subscriber over the past few years, I'm probably not going to reup this next time around.  Like this forum, I'm finding less and less that I enjoy about it.

I decided this past year to try the digital version for the extra $12/month.  That was pretty much a waste of money.  While the zoom feature was kinda handy, I much preferred the hard copy.  Reading articles online is okay.  Reading a periodical cover-to-cover, however, just isn't practical for me.

Tom

Edit: I'll probably do what Crandell does and pick up MR from my LHS if and when any of the contents piques my interest.

[cedarwoodron]

Like many others, I have my own pros and cons about MR, and as a long-time reader (since the mid-1960s), I have seen many changes in it's coverage and format- some beneficial to me, others of no import. However, for a number of years I was an annual subscriber and then, for the last two years, I was not. Then...I found myself strangely drawn to Barnes and Noble or Hobbytown, where I instinctively reached for each month's edition and bought it without thinking- perhaps a reflex response? Who can say? Recently, I re-subscribed for the next year, and in all likelihood, will stay on the track again and again. Why? Because there is always SOMETHING in each issue I enjoy and one cannot part with an old friend "just because"! Probably the best reason I started my subscription again, is- like the "little boy" in all of us- I truly enjoy looking forward to getting MR in my mailbox every month! And that's reason (and logic) enough for me! Cedarwoodron