In one of the "fake news" threads here, someone suggested The Economist as a good weekly recap. I got a subscription for my wife for Christmas (she wasn't thrilled, but it's growing on her). We've both been enjoying having the physical magazines around, as we can pick one up and read a good 5 minute story with coffee or before bed. Some articles have a clear moneyed establishment slant, but there's a lot of quality research and writing and a minimum of fluff.

Maybe your wife would like The Economist's sister publication called "1843". Less serious, but well written too.

I've had a subscription to three physical magazines for many years now; for two of them, it's been for 20 years. I've also kept all of those issues (ugh).

Recently, though, for one of the magazines I decided to get the CD version with PDFs (Servo Magazine); for the other two, it would be impossible to do this - Servo Magazine hasn't been out as long, and so it was easy to "catch up".

That's interesting to hear, since we're launching a quarterly of stories in 2017, as a classic magazine.

It will be digital and paper (comic book/pulp format to evoke the Amazing Stories feel), but we really wanted to get paper magazines out there for that same tangibility.

I've toyed around with this idea but I decided the paper and transport waste meant I was indulging myself recklessly.

On the other hand, an e-ink device over a glossy mobile or laptop screen is something I was happy to restrain myself to.