Subscription service?

[Isaac]

So do my fellow nub lovers receive all their information on the net, or do you subscribe to any publications? If you do, I would live to hear from you all, and the benefit to subscribing.

[Yanks27]

What's a magazine?

[rearviewmirror]

What's a magazine?
its what the internet came on before computers

[Wetshavemike]

its what the internet came on before computers
Did it plug into the tv?

[Vlad]

I pick up penworld or any other trade magazine at pen stores for free. I love magazines. Just got a Smallflower catalog with shaving goodies in it.

[Dave258]

The only paper thing I get in the mail is a catalog from Fountain Pen Hospital. Said thing is I never have the $$$$ to go with it!

[syngent]

I get macleans magazine lots of cool info from a Canadian perspective in it and it's three bucks a month.. plus it gives you access to the content on the supporting app... great read for the coffee table when I'm done I bring them to work and people read them there

[maxman]

I only know of penworld magazine and stylus magazine that are still in production.
I have no experience with either.

At one time Watch Time magazine had a column on pens but they just changed the format and dropped the column.

I don't get any other magazines. My wife gets Today's Parent, but there's no pens in that :sad:

[zethreal]

its what the internet came on before computers

only without memes and you had to 'click on links' by sending people paper or calling them!

[Yanks27]

Did it plug into the tv?

Rcently I was yelling at my son that he sounded like a broken record. He had no idea what I was talking about.

[Slash McCoy]

What's a magazine?
It is a small box or tube that stores ammunition for repeating firearms.

[slugg77]

It is a small box or tube that stores ammunition for repeating firearms.

Dang, one post too late :thumbup:

[oc_in_fw]

Rcently I was yelling at my son that he sounded like a broken record. He had no idea what I was talking about.
Next time, tell him he is more cranked up than a gramophone :biggrin:

[Doc4]

So do my fellow nub lovers receive all their information on the net, or do you subscribe to any publications? If you do, I would live to hear from you all, and the benefit to subscribing.


What's a magazine?

For that matter, what's a "nub" and just how much do you "live" yours?

[maxman]

I love nub!
(that's the end of the loaf of bread isn't it?)

[Jporco]

Pen world and Pennant (if you are a PCA - pen collectors of America member) are the only two that I know about in current production. I don't think Stylus is in publication anymore, they stopped around 2007 or 2008.

If we are talking about publications in the past, for those who have been at it a few years there was Cliff Lawrence's Pen Fancier's Magazine which was mainly vintage ads and pens for sale, Cliff stopped publishing quite a few years ago. Also there is the Fountain Pen Hospital catalogue, but it is not nearly as complete as it used to be (they also had a quarterly publication of pens for sale and some ads before their website went to a full retail outlet).

And if you dig around in some old collectors boxes you might find a catalogue from Battered Sea Fountain Pen, another 'for sale' catalogue from England (Always has some unusual pens for sale). Penna magazine is an Italian publication and I think they still are n production, but not sure who imports the magazine anymore - it was pricy when I got the import version (I think somewhere around $15). And I think there was a Japanese pen magazine but it might have been a sister publication to a US magazine (like the watch magazines do for Germany, US, France, etc.).

A Google search should yield the few limited pen mags out there now. (Pen World, Pennant, Penna?)....I'd like to know if there are others too...

Cheers and happy hunting.
Jim

[Doc4]

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[DanOK]

All my pen reading comes from the internet. I am a member of a lot of organizations ( DU, NRA, SHRM, etc.) some are professional and some represent groups I chose to support. I lot mail me magazines which I enjoy reading and taking to the office for others to read. I also buy a magazine subscription for each of my grandchildren. They chose the magazine and I buy them a subscription with a additional subscription for my wife and I.

This works especially well with the grandkids as everyone is scattered across the country. We always have a conversation each month about what we saw in our magazine. I also think it helps them develop reading skills. Of course it makes for a huge variety for us. Seventeen, Highlights, Outdoor Life, National Geographic, and Odyssey just to name a few. Yearly subscriptions range from $12 to $30 dollars and we probably spend around $120 a year on the kids.

[Isaac]

Nub and live. One has to love the auto spell correct on the iPhone.

[Doc4]

Nub and live. One has to love the auto spell correct on the iPhone.

Eye, theirs the rib.

[oc_in_fw]

Eye, theirs the rib.
Nub me some ribs