[speaker001:] well I'm are you there
[speaker002:] yes yes
[speaker001:] okay I'm sure that I probably um prescribe to different magazines ones that you do I take Doll Reader and Doll World because
[speaker002:] different set
[speaker001:] because I collect dolls um I also take Better Homes and Gardens
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I like that and then uh my husband he just uh subscribed to a wood he just started a woodwork so he just sent away to get some woodworking books
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] so what kind do you uh get
[speaker002:] you know well I have a bunch of computer journals because I'm in computer science but beyond that uh lately I've been reading I've always liked the New Yorker
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and lately I've been picking up some of the travel uh both trade magazines and just the general travel magazines
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um trying to keep up on what's going on
[speaker001:] is it
[speaker002:] and my wife also gets a lot of the food magazines Bon Appetite and Food and Wine and Gourmet
[speaker001:] yeah I used to take that right
[speaker002:] yeah and she and she still likes to get Time
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] which I've never liked very much but she seems to
[speaker001:] yeah I don't I if I you know if if I happen to find it I'll go ahead and read it someplace you know if I'm in a doctor's office or something like that but other than that I never I never liked that really
[speaker002:] do you read a newspaper
[speaker001:] I read my newspaper I can hardly wait in the mornings for the newspaper to get here
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know so I do like to read the newspaper um and even this little newspaper that Patterson puts out in fact it it puts it out on Tuesdays and Thursdays I can hardly wait to get that to get the local news but uh other than that magazines I don't know there's so much advertising in them anymore
[speaker002:] some of them I used to get for the advertising like Byte magazine which is uh
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] one of the larger computer ones I haven't bought it now for about eight years but when I used to get it it was about five hundred pages about three hundred of them advertising
[speaker001:] um-hum huh
[speaker002:] because that was interesting I think a lot of the trade magazines are like that
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] that that half the fun is finding out what all the products are
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] but you know some of the get ridiculous Travel and Leisure all of the American Express magazines
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so Travel and Leisure Food and Wine and I think they have some others uh certainly half the pages and maybe more are pure ads plus they have the advertising supplement sections that are supposed to look like articles but are paid for and it is it's clear that I I've bought some of these through wholesalers and they don't care if they make any money on the magazine subscription they're making everything on ads
[speaker001:] yeah right right yeah well I I only you know subscribe to the things that I'm interested in I used to be into coin collecting so I used to get the coin magazine the paper actually is what it was you know I used to get that so now that I'm into dolls that's about
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] all I really really want you know
[speaker002:] have you ever um read or subscribe to Consumer Reports for any length of time
[speaker001:] no huh-uh um I think they're interesting
[speaker002:] but not worth it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I I've always had this one of the reasons I like to to pick up magazines in other fields is that you seem to get a very different perspective so
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I've always had this problem with Consumer Reports that in the areas that I know a lot about I disagree with them
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I always wonder whether there are people who know a lot about every area disagreeing with them on everything or or what's going on
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so I've like I've picked up now a subscription to one of the travel agent uh organization magazines and it's a ridiculous difference when you start reading from their perspective um you know their major interest is in commissions and you know there's very little talk about the quality of places or airlines their major talk is about you know commissions and commission rebates and how they won't suggest hotels to people if the commission's not a the full ten percent or whatever it is and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it gives you a different perspective on what people do
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum well those travel magazines are that more or less show you different countries that you could go to or
[speaker002:] yeah uh some of them the the general travel magazines do I don't tend to read it for that
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] because I don't expect to be traveling overseas in in the future for quite awhile but I I usually just read through the sections on on domestic stuff
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum okay well I don't know any other magazines I could talk to you about um I don't take anymore than that
[speaker002:] no yeah I don't take in much more in myself
[speaker001:] you know so
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] well I guess that will be it then and
[speaker002:] okay nice talking to you