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Started by Barrister, April 23, 2020, 12:33:14 PM

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Pedrito

National Geographic paper, it gives me access to all the website contents.

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Camerus

I'm pretty cheap, but I signed up to the New York Times for $4 a month Canadian. However, I might cancel out at some point. Not sure if it's worth the cost versus just what I can get from free websites.

KRonn

I have one for a Boston paper. It used to be free but then it went to subscription. I wanted something local so went with  paying for it. It's cheap though. I also have a subscription to a local multi-town paper to see local news, an actual delivered news paper.

garbon

Quote from: Syt on April 23, 2020, 02:28:47 PM
What I found interesting was how US newspaper subs seem cheaper than German language ones. NYT was $14 IIRC. German paper Die Zeit or Austrian paper Der Standard are both 20-22 EUR.

I know magazine subs are generally cheaper in US vs say here in UK.
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Maladict

I only have a newspaper subscription, I get the weekend edition in print plus full digital access.

Zanza

I pay for Google Drive to backup my photos.

Josephus

Quote from: Monoriu on April 23, 2020, 03:11:45 PM
I refuse to pay for any subscription.

and that's why good journalism is dead.
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FunkMonk

Have WaPo and WSJ access through work. I skip the NYT.

Personally, I sub to The Athletic and The Atlantic.

My wife also gets the weekend edition of the WaPo but she said our sub expired a while back, yet we still receive the weekend papers.  :ph34r:
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The Brain

Quote from: FunkMonk on April 24, 2020, 06:25:26 AM
Have WaPo and WSJ access through work. I skip the NYT.

Personally, I sub to The Athletic and The Atlantic.

My wife also gets the weekend edition of the WaPo but she said our sub expired a while back, yet we still receive the weekend papers.  :ph34r:

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Maladict

Quote from: Zanza on April 24, 2020, 05:50:10 AM
I pay for Google Drive to backup my photos.

If we're including this then also a VPN and a backup service.

The Larch

Quote from: Maladict on April 24, 2020, 06:42:55 AM
Quote from: Zanza on April 24, 2020, 05:50:10 AM
I pay for Google Drive to backup my photos.

If we're including this then also a VPN and a backup service.

Then we can also include which podcasters or youtubers we support on Patreon?  :hmm:

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Savonarola

We have a dead trees subscription to the Space Coast edition of Florida Today; which gives us access to their online content.  It's not really in depth; but it is the only good source for local news I've found.

I'm a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as a member of the IEEE Communication Society - which gives me access to a number of on line publications and white paper.  The general magazine (The Spectrum) is like the bizarro world version of a news magazine: everything is getting better, technology will solve all our problems, Harvard's college of engineering doesn't actually suck (or at least not as much as you might think it does), and soon we'll all have those exoskeleton suits from alien.  I don't think the comm soc publications would be of interest to anyone else, but I find them interesting to see some of the far out ideas coming from academia and research labs.
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