I love the feel of a magazine or a book. Digital just doesn't fit the bill for me. Sadly a lot of publications are gone, not even offering a digital version (or charging as much for a digital copy as they do a print making it prohibitive to support for long).
I agree, a print publication can control the layout, have a "soul" almost, something that websites simply fail at miserably. Look back at Gamefan versus EGM in the gaming world and you can immediately tell them apart. Look at their websites (Gamefan is defunct, again) and you would be hard pressed to tell which is which, even after knowing).
Magcloud, the service I used many times, has a lot of magazines available. Not just gaming or electronics related. The problem there is the price - Magcloud charges $0.20 per side of the page so a 40 page mag is at least $8 plus shipping.
I still purchase nice hardcovers and collected editions because I too love the feel of a hard copy but for magazines (and even comics, which I love) digital started winning the battle when I got a big iPad Pro. The screen was finally something that could display a full page at normal scale with great quality.
I have been slow to the tablet adoption side of things. I have a Nextbook A8 Aries (nothing to write home about but what can you expect from a $35 tablet today?) but have yet to use it for much else other than writing articles and replying to comments here on Steemit.
iPad Pro is just too rich for my blood right now. They look great but that price.
It is pricey, I originally got it more for the creation side of things and it is really the drawing capabilities that justify the price tag. The joy of consuming content on it was an added bonus. It really was the first time I enjoyed ebooks and digital publications, even though I'd previously had a smaller iPad.
That is awesome, I was thinking you bought it mainly to read comics. I was thinking, your money but damn. lol
I know a lot of artists that swear by the iPad line of tablets, at least the bigger ones. If I had that type of talent I probably would have one too.
MagCloud looks nice, but yeah, I feel like there's gotta be a better print on demand price out there. I'll have to dig through a bunch of links I have for comics printing that I haven't looked at in years.