They are and then again, some staple ones are growing. The internet replaced a lot of the news format magazines, but, the internet will never replace National Geographic, the beautiful magazine that invented glossy pictures. I was wrong too. I thought it was a dying thing, but, I think it will be around for a while. For the same reason people still like books, magazines offer something a little different, away from the constant, addictive screen of the internet. I worry about a world that lives inside that screen. People are less active again, with fewer friends and live interactions, so many are dependent on their internet friendships.
Yikes!
I like it here, but, I have my family and friends in real life. I wish that for everyone. Anyway, I got off tangent, but, magazines offer a peaceful reprieve and I actually used them a lot for homeschooling. @homeedders Quality magazines are a great place to reinforce grammar, Nat Geo touches on history with almost every article, encourages discussions, teaches skills and how-to's and all of my children still read them, although, as I said, we all use the internet, however, need something away from it also.
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I had magazines around for my girls, science and National Geographic, mostly. I think my eldest read most of them, but my youngest wasn't as interested. She's always been more the active kind. There came a time when neither would look at them, though. They read everything online now.
Well honestly mine read most things online I have learned to take time off from screen, which is where they indulge themselves with the different magazines from time to time. Pushed her Taste of change as they have and it is more scuba magazines and different equipment to go with it, photography magazines and government magazines discussing different politics. And where would we be in without architectural Digest? So I think that it's fair to say that more people read everything online as opposed to reading both ways. We are huge into Kindles although most everybody in this house likes a book between their hands but have fun with the the ease of the Kindle for most days. I hate to see magazines go when, but of course I will adapt whichever way.
you are absolutely right: reading books is more beneficial than reading anything on the internet as it involves other parts of the brain. just like writing by hand or typing on a computer. when a person writes by hand, it relieves stress and nervous tension. in Israel, psychologists even advised doing this during a period of particularly severe quarantines. and of course no online friendship can replace a real, warm relationship offline