Is it just me, or does it bug anyone else when a magazine article is "continued on page 240"?? Argh!!!! :hairpull: Number one, the pages at the back of magazines are usually advertising and don't have numbers on them, so how the heck do you find page 240?? And then there are usually 2 or 3 articles that are continued on page 240, so then you have to figure out which one is the end of the article that you were reading. And by the time you get that all sorted out, you forget what the last thing you read was and have to go back to refresh your memory. Or maybe it's just me!? :rolleyes:
I really like Livingetc (from England) for a lot of reasons -- one of them being that you don't have to go searching for the end of an article.
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gotta agree the first thing that goes out of the magazine are the cardpaper pieces - subscription cards & heavy ads.
What really urks me is newspapers that start an article on one page and continue somewhere else. Magazines arent so bad because i get to look at the ads then forget about the article I was reading. After many flips thru the magazine I eventually get around to finishing reading it. A newspaper is one flip only.
The magazine criteria people use really interests me. For me, I check where the first article falls in the magazine (not the editorials, best product reviews (which are paid for), etc.). It always amazes me when the first article is on something like page 86 or 152. I mean come on, how many ads do we have to go through and pay for? Fashion mags are the worst for this.
My other criteria is the very first ad in the mag. If it is the type that makes women feel inadequate about their looks or anything else (stop aging! buy this makeup to be successful!) magazine is back in the rack. Again, those fashion mags...might be the reason there aren't any in my house.
The article being continued on another page is something I just consider a layout thing, to get people to move through the magazine through more ads and to keep interest as people flip through by keeping the start page to the articles more together. Meanwhile, the whole thing really is all about advertising and it annoys the crap out of me to pay for the privaledge of having it all thrust at me.
I often pay $20/mag for English graphics magazines. They are so full of information that I am willing to pay. Sure there is some advertising, but the meat of the mag far exceeds the ad space. Ask me to pay $5 for the type typically published here, and I won't buy it.
Meanwhile I have to admit to being a magazine junkie. I love magazines although I do buy a lot fewer than I used to as I lose more and more patience with the ads.
My solution, don't buy the darn magazine. :rolleyes:
I really like Livingetc (from England) for a lot of reasons -- one of them being that you don't have to go searching for the end of an article.
Like George Bernard Shaw said, "America and England, two countries separated by a common language". I don't why the hell they do that, but I ran into the same thing yesterday when I was reading my latest issue of money sense magazine.
I am not even going to go into the ads that interrupt tv shows over here every 3 mins or less :mad:
I don't mind having the articles continue and finish in the back pages. My approach with a new magazine always begins with a quick cover-to-cover, and then I go through it a second time and read stories of interest that continue in the back pages..
I also remove the cardboard pages and inserts as I go. H&H actually isn't too bad with these, but there's an American one on the newsstand that is so full of cardboard bits that they almost totally impair one's ability to flip the pages so they 'fan'. Instead, pages kind of chunk down in sections because of the cardboard. With prices of some US magazines up around $8, I want to see if the issue is worth my money. All I need is a quick fan of the pages that takes less than a minute, and my mind is made up. Twice recently I have put one of those US ones back because the chunking pages would not easily allow my buyer preview.
First thng, all those heavy pages are gone. I don't even look at them. Really hate the smelly pages. I don't mind perfume but I'll sample it at the store thanks.
I rarely finish an article either if it's continued at the back. If I do, I read the article & go right back to where I left off. I start the mag with the editor's notes then keep going page by page.
I'm with you on that it drives me crazy half the time I never finish what I am reading seems to much to find it and go on to something else. When I get a new mag the first thing I do is go and rip oput all the add in heavy paper ad that make it so the mag won't stay open those really bug me.