I had a subscription for a couple years, and grabbed a bunch more between sale-priced single issues on their site and eBay.
We've got a couple stacks of them, maybe 20ish issues total, and I grab one a lot of the time when I'm taking the kids somewhere that my main role will be to sit around. Beats reading a phone (plus works if there's no service), most pieces are short so getting interrupted isn't a big deal, and they're very friendly to open-to-any-page-and-go sorts of approaches.
Really, the only reason they're not absolutely perfect for that is that they won't fit easily in a jacket or coat pocket like some mass-market paperbacks or older Modern Library hardcover volumes will. Otherwise, though, just about ideal for that use case.
We've got a couple stacks of them, maybe 20ish issues total, and I grab one a lot of the time when I'm taking the kids somewhere that my main role will be to sit around. Beats reading a phone (plus works if there's no service), most pieces are short so getting interrupted isn't a big deal, and they're very friendly to open-to-any-page-and-go sorts of approaches.
Really, the only reason they're not absolutely perfect for that is that they won't fit easily in a jacket or coat pocket like some mass-market paperbacks or older Modern Library hardcover volumes will. Otherwise, though, just about ideal for that use case.