For those who love a lot of magazines...

8 years ago

...but can't afford to buy (or subscribe to) all of them...

The thread about Reader's Digest magazine prompted me to post about this. Many of you might already be aware of it and taking advantage, but for those of you who don't know what it is... There is an app called Texture (originally known as Next Issue) that, for $15 per month, allows you unlimited access to read over 170 different magazines. You even have access to back issues. I think it started primarily as an app for Apple devices (I could be wrong about that), but it is now available for iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, and iPod Touch (all of which must be running iOS 7 or newer); tablets and smartphones running Android 4 or newer; and computers and tables running Windows 8 or Windows RT. It's now available for Kindle Fire tablets, too! You can share the app on up to five devices, so if you sometimes are on your pc and sometimes using an iPad, you still will have access.

You can sign up for a free one-month trial, or you can get a three-month trial subscription for $15.

Some of the magazines (there are about 100 more!) that are available through the app are:

Allrecipes

Architectural Digest

Ask

Better Homes and Gardens

Bicycling

Bike

Billboard

Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Markets

Bon Appétit

Brides

Canadian Health and Lifestyle

Car and Driver

Clean Eating

Coastal Living

Condé Nast Traveler

Consumer Reports

Cycle World

Draft

Diabetic Living

ESPN The Magazine

Entertainment Weekly

Faces

Family Circle

Field & Stream

Flare

Food & Wine

Forbes

Fortune

Gluten-Free Living

Golf

Golf Digest

Good Housekeeping

Hello! Canada

Ladybug

Martha Stewart Living

Men's Fitness

Men's Health

Money

Motor Trend

Motorcyclist

National Geographic

National Geographic Kids (ages 6-12)

National Geographic Little Kids (ages 3-6)

New York

Newsweek

O, The Oprah Magazine

PC Magazine

Parents

People

Prevention

Reader's Digest

Road & Track

Rolling Stone

Ski

Shutterbug

Smithsonian

Southern Living

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated Kids

Sportsnet

Sunset

Time

The Hollywood Reporter

The New Yorker

This Old House

Travel + Leisure

US Weekly

Vanity Fair

Vegetarian Times

Veranda

Vogue

Wine Enthusiast

Yoga Journal

I've subscribed since early last year, and I really enjoy it. The $15 per month I spend on the subscription is less than I was paying out for a bunch of individual magazines, and I don't have a pile of magazines that I need to carry out to the recycle bin!

Anyway, I thought that some of you might be interested.

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joyfulguy
8 years ago
In south-western Ontario, Canada, my municipal library system offers about 60 magazines on a service called "Zinio" that's free with my library card.

ole joyful
Bluebell66
8 years ago
I have used Texture and loved it, but found that all the magazines I read are at my library. I read them on the Nook app on my Windows tablet.
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
8 years ago
I use zinio on my android devices. I have a lot of subscriptions but I forget to go look at them. I get lots of free online magazines through freebizmagazine I think that's the name.
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