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Reader's Digest.

yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2018 in General Discussion
Found one of these, too. Didn't know they still made these either. A lot thinner and not pulpy like I remember. Maybe that's why they're thinner? I don't think these makes good emergency TP. Things might just slick over and not grab.
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    They have a quilted version as well as. Large print version.
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry I just checked and the quilted version is not on the Cal DOJ list.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    mostly ads now anyway....slick paper, slick ads....no joy
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  • truthfultruthful Member Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gave up on RD several years ago when it went to mostly ads, and content became boring. The worst was in every issue the article listing "13, or 30, or 100 Things ______ won't tell you." Totally made up crap.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some 40 years ago, it was a very high honor to have something published there, because the selection process was so intense. Probably no longer such an accomplishment.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember when they were so proud that they didn't have ads. They did do one great service to the country. They printed a long article about what happened at Chappaquiddick when Ted Kennedy was running for President. That took the wind out of his sails.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember when they were so proud that they didn't have ads. They did do one great service to the country. They printed a long article about what happened at Chappaquiddick when Ted Kennedy was running for President. That took the wind out of his sails.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not only did the post double but this time I can't even delete it.
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    The best thing about Reader's Digest is that there are still millions of OLD copies out there to be had.

    Priced from free to nearly free, and still some good reading.[:)]
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    did readers digest get sold to another agenda somewhere along its line it changed ..when i moved into my grandads home after he died there was every old issue back to the beginning..first ones had no ads and now one gets snippets of articles amongst a sea of irrelevant ads in a much thinner issue
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sat down and started to flip through it and I didn't recognize what I was looking at. The old stuff had stories, right? This seemed more like a "Lunch Time Survey". I wonder if I'll recognize National Geographics?
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NG has changed since Murdoch? bought it..first thing he did was fire a load of people and REMOVE the readers questions and response section ...you are to purchase it and SHUT UP... and have noticed some issues promoting a political agenda like a recent one concerning black America and how they have been so abused..when my current subscriprion is up it is out the door...so is Time magazine...get straight info from--The Week-- and Smithsonian
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  • kannoneerkannoneer Member Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to like the Reader's Digest first-person stories about how someone had survived some calamity- earthquake, fire, car crash, plane crash, etc. Also had the condensed book story in the back. Several pages of jokes and general 'life in the US' type stuff. Don't know what they have now; haven't read one for 20 years or more.
    But I own some going back almost 60 years and they have plenty of ads in them.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by kannoneer
    I used to like the Reader's Digest first-person stories about how someone had survived some calamity- earthquake, fire, car crash, plane crash, etc. Also had the condensed book story in the back. Several pages of jokes and general 'life in the US' type stuff. Don't know what they have now; haven't read one for 20 years or more.
    But I own some going back almost 60 years and they have plenty of ads in them.

    When Digest executives decided in 1955 to accept advertising, 33 years after its first issue, they prohibited selling space on the back cover, which at other publications is a highly prized --
    I am surprised it was that long ago, I would have guessed it was much more recent.
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  • sxsnufsxsnuf Member Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember when cable tv was commercial free, because you PAID for it.
    Now, I PAY a cable company to inundate me with commercials, many promoting the Happyagenda or the plight of the disadvantaged minorities.
    Any of the magazines I pick up today will be at least 75% advertizing.
    Can't even escape the ads on my favorite websites, but at least those are free.
    Arrivederci gigi
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I go by RD in chapaqua ny on my way home. I shoot trap just a few blocks from their HQ.
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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