WHET to Reader's Digest?

Crafting with readers digest books. My secret's out!!! :. you can't give those away....

I'm a subscriber. There's often some interesting stuff to read while on the toilet.

Endless, pointless lists killed it.

I still see them in medical office waiting rooms, usually they are the only thing not months out of date.

Deceased?

[quote] Endless, pointless lists killed it.

What are these lists?

They all got turned into holiday decor.

articles ask too much for readers in the year 2019

I agree, R8, it has become far too intellectual. Always was a bit highbrow, truth be told.

I never read the articles just the fun jokes, and reader submissions.

It always was for old folks. I’m surprised it’s still around.

I read it when I was little. I always thought it was lowbrow, actually, how they condensed books.

My brother gives a subscription of the large print edition to my mother every Christmas. I believe the step after large print is no print.

[quote] I never read the articles just the fun jokes, and reader submissions.

R10 is Francis Barrone of Long Island.

I grew up reading and viewing Reader's Digest.

In my preteen years, I was obsessed with all things automobile related, so I would routinely go through my mother's monthly RD subscription (and my father's car magazines as well, to a lesser extent) and tear out the car adverts, and add them to my collection of car advertising and marketing brochures which I kept in one of the drawers in my bedroom bureau. Finally, my mother had had enough and yelled at me to stop tearing out the RD auto ads because their backside contained sections of articles she was reading.

Later, in my mid-and late teens, I really enjoyed reading their repeating series such as "I am Joe's Kidneys" or the sidebars such as "Life in These United States". In my twenties, though, I realized that RD was a very conservative publication, and when I looked back through my mother's old issues (my father was a hoarder and kept every magazine ever mailed to him and my mother in boxes in the basement), I noticed that so many of their articles were, in essence, right-wing propaganda, so I lost interest after that. One of my sisters will buy RD issues every now and then, and when I read the articles, they are much more shallow and simplistic compared to those much earlier issues.

[quote] they are much more shallow and simplistic compared to those much earlier issues.

Demand-led, I suppose.

This thread was even more fun, OP, when we did it FIVE MONTHS AGO.

R17 Most people like you died within the last five months. So we renew. You are a survivor, bravo; we weren't expecting to see you.

From the homepage:

50 Bad Jokes That You Can't Help but Laugh At

15 Tiny Details You Missed the First (and Second) Time You Read Harry Potter

100 Fun and Interesting Facts About Practically Everything

27 Inspiring New Year's Resolution Ideas You'll Want to Keep

8 Types of Headaches--and How to Get Rid of Them

11 Halitosis Remedies to Help You Get Rid of Bad Breath

6 Sneaky Reasons Behind Your Body Odor

...this is lazy for a magazine. So low-brow.

Such hardcore bitches you are. I loved them . My parents had a subscription most of my life.Mom did until about 5 years ago.

I’ve tried twice to subscribe and each time I got about 3 or 4 issues then they stopped coming and it wasn’t until later I realized I hadn’t been getting them. I guess it sounded more interesting than it really was to actually read the articles.