What goes around, comes around.

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Years ago (yes, I admit it, before web surfing became a daily - make that an hourly - activity for me) I used to subscribe to numerous print journals. Even though numerous journals were filling up my mailbox over the course of a month, there's no doubt that a great deal more information reaches my eyes today, and from a much wider variety of sources. And yet back then there was at least one clear advantage to a magazine subscription.

A subscription to a magazine helped me maintain a feeling of consistency. Throughout a particular month I could review the articles in the magazines to which I subscribed, or, if I was busy or had too much to read, I might forget that I intended to read them. But when a new month began, and with it, new editions of those magazines arrived, I could start reading again.

On the web, the supply of items to read is so vast, that often even if I bookmark a particular journal, and even put it into a "read these weekly" or "read these monthly" file, chances are good that when a new month comes around, I'm not going to remember that I wanted to take a glance at them. I'll already be busy with different articles from different magazines. A subscription to a magazine can give us a much needed anchor in an information-rich world.

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