One by one the magazines I used to read (holding them in my hands, like old school) died on me. There are still magazines that I read like PcGamer, Nat Geo, Digital Photographer. As a fan of printed everything (newspapers, magazines. sports, fishing, karate, gaming, you name it) I don't like that some publishers close the printed edition and go exclusively online. I do read a few magazines online, but for me it's not the same thing.

Anyway, what's your opinion on printed vs digital reading? Which way you prefer, and did your favorite printed things die or still holding up?

*Sigh* Alas, poor Nintendo Power. I knew him.

The magazine I grew up with, Level is still up and running. I still buy occasionally but some magazines lost a ton of editorial quality in time, especially the social&history ones.

As for reading books, paper>pixels. I dont buy a lot, I dont read a lot nowadays but when I do it has to be nice quality paper.

I prefer to read the old-fashioned way, especially when it comes to longer pieces of texts. Because of this I never bought a digital novel, I always buy physical ones (or borrow from the library).

With magazines, it's not really the same as the texts are much shorter. I used to buy computer magazines fairly often back in the 90s, but in the past ~15 years I barely bought any issues at all. The main reason I bought them back then was for the news, and for that internet is so much better, as by the time you read a magazine the news are already old news.

I do buy some swedish issues of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Illustrated now and then though, so my magazine consumption isn't completely dead

I generally prefer printed matter. Although I appreciate the convenience of compact and searchable digital media, there's something nice about the tactility of a magazine of book, especially if it's something nicely bound with good quality paper such as a Folio Society edition. A comparison between that and an electronic contraption covered in fingerprints? No competition really, at least not in my case.

Printed. If ever the world becomes an all digital place for books/magazines, I will never read anything ever again. Soo...yeah here's hoping that never happens because I LOVE to read(4-8 hours a day is spent reading, every day).

I like to read things in print, especially books etc. But it does seem to be dying, more and more books get released as e-books, papers seem to rely more and more on their web sites. The greatest news on that front here in Norways is that Donald Duck will only be printed to subscribers and no longer sold in stores.

I think the printed press will endure, but there will probably be less of it. It might make a comeback though, once it becomes retro and all the hipsters want it.