Reloading My Magazine

 I bought a magazine last Thursday, but I have yet to read it.  Sure, I have glanced through it, but I haven't read it.  I've had the time, just not the interest.  Used to, I would never wait so long to read something.  Now, I just don't feel like it too much.  For decades now,  I would follow the same routine whenever I got something new to read, whether it was a magazine, comic, or book.  I would give it a once-over as soon as I could.  Then I would read it fully later.  The only exception would be fiction, particularly if it was a book I really was waiting for.   I would never skim it for fear of ruining the ending.  Nowadays, that last rule is just about the only one I still follow.  First, there is the decontamination phase.  Then, I do the usual skimming.  While I still try to read comics as soon as I can, but everything else no longer keeps my interest so much.  The previous two issues of this magazine had some features that didn't interest me at all.  I barely scanned them.  I used to read every article in every magazine I bought, no matter how much it interested me or not.  Now, I just skim the parts that no longer pertain to me.  I still feel a little guilty for not checking out about half a magazine, but at least I save time by doing that.  On the other hand, whenever a magazine starts to change its format too much, I fear that it will not be published much longer.  Just earlier this year, another one of my magazines switched to online only.  The entire line went digital.  I didn't even realize it for two months.  I thought I had missed an issue.  Magazine distribution around here can get strange.  New issues can be up to a week late.  For weekly magazines, this is a major problem.  This hurts even more when many of my favorites aren't readily available locally.  Since I'm not traveling much, this means I have missed out on a few issues.  Sure, some content is online, but I like having the physical copy.  Reading online causes eye strain when I do so for long periods of time.  This prevents me from enjoying my game supplement PDFs as much as I used to.  I would read them again and again, trying to irk out some new information or catch a cool rule.  I used to do the same with my comic books.  I would read my favorites two or three times before I would put them into longer term storage.  Now, I barely read them once before putting them away.  So many are being cancelled lately.  I will barely have half my former monthly totals by January.  Back to magazines.  I still get a few magazines on their regular basis.  I keep most of them about a year, before looking through them one last time before I get rid of them.  I keep the parts I think will be useful, going through them again and again to thin out my stash.  Even that chore is getting to me.  I just don't feel like it is so important any more, and I let the older issues start to pile up.  For my current puzzle magazine, I have an entire section of forty puzzles that I have yet to go through.  I like the type, but not necessarily how company does them.  I usually only do one puzzle of a type per day, but if I want to finish this issue before the next one comes out, I will have to do at least four a day.  I already have two other in waiting, although I already started one accidentally.  I mixed up the order.  I try to do them in the order they came out.  I just have so may other things to do, and not as much interest to do so.