I used to buy AM occasionally, then after buying a straight run 2nd-hand from issue #1 to 1999 bought every issue till the end of 2010 to 'complete the set' ( about the time I started writing the odd aviation article myself)
Proper books seem much better value than magazines (and these 'specials' on the mag shelves), and there is more price discounting and genuine bargains with books.....I prefer to find photos on the internet, litho paper photo reproduction is inferior....I do prefer to read large panels of text on paper rather than as webpages/ PDFs
The Aviation Historian sounds OK but I can't afford it on my pension.
Wikipedia is potentially a brilliant evolutionary concept but I would say it will always take just one person to steam in and completely rewrite a whole page to give it any shape, style or tolerability instead of an amorphous mess of neurotically plagiaristic references and quotes [and gross errors :-) ]
Last edited by A30yoyo; 14th Aug 2014 at 12:02.