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Reader's Digest
Who can keep up with 8,500 magazines and newspapers, 2,300 TV channels, plus more than 200 million websites? In an era of information overload, Reader s Digest offers something unique: the very best advice, information and inspiration from multiple sources, condensed into a consumer-friendly digest. Delivered ten times a year, Reader's Digest brings you trusted, time-saving insights about health, personal finance, work, family, and national issues, plus exclusive book excerpts, news-making interviews, and humor. Winner of the 2009 National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the reinvented Reader's Digest has been praised as imaginative, timely, engaging, useful, a good companion, and a great escape.
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4,601 books487 followersThe Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.
The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.
The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.
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May 6, 2022Why is this magazine still in print?
Reader’s Digest, August 2018
When I was in high school our teacher, Miss Zaph, gave us copies of the Reader’s Digest each month, and we
had to place an x mark on the stories she wanted us to read. I can’t say that I enjoyed the Digest even then, and I am not sure why she had thought that they were educational.
Miss Zaph was a strange lady. She wore a hearing aid and used to turn it off at times, and during these times the class would get rowdy. Maybe that wasn’t so strange after all. I also remember how we all once laughed when we heard an ambulance pass by. She scolded the class, giving us a lecture on compassion. We never laughed again.
My mother loved the Reader’s Digest too, and when I was married she once sent me a year’s subscription. It made for a good bathroom read when it came to the jokes in it. Only the jokes were never that great, and as I found out, because I just purchased a year’s subscription on my kindle for only $5 a year, they are still terrible.
I mostly remember the stories where people survived bear attacks. This is the reason why I am frightened of bears to this very day. This is why I didn’t want to go to Yellowstone a few years back. This is why when I was married to my first husband and we had taken a trip to Yosemite and had to sleep in our car, I did not want to get out at night to use the bathroom. I did anyway. I rushed out of the car, squatted, and ran to get back inside.
What bothers me most about the Digest is that their stories are all condensed, and they are obviously edited by the same person as the style never changes. For example, If you read a Hemmingway book it will sound like Little Women.
The Reader’s Digest Condensed books given to our library each year, so someone likes them, but we can never sell them at our yearly book sale, which tells you that we Okies are not all stupid. Instead the books always find their way to the city dump. One year my friend Toni was making boxes out of old Reader Digest covers. She even made me one. I gathered up all the old cloth covered Digests and brought them to her, and she tore out all the pages leaving just the cover. I tried to make some, but with my eye site they were a mess, which is also why some of my reviews are a mess. My husband took a try at it because he saw what a mess I was making. The Crazy Glue made a mess out of his too, just a small one. I kept it because he made it.
What made me think of getting the Digest? Well, it had been on my mind for some reason. I see them at the checkout stand at the grocery store, and they are expensive for what they are. I had also read an article saying that our president had an IQ of 90 or so because he only uses a vocabulary of 700 words. Someone took note. I doubt if my own is any better, but I know that there are many words that I never use. I know this because I see them when I am reading. I imagine that he doesn’t use all the words that he knows either, but I don’t doubt that his IQ is low, that is, if a master manipulator can have a low IQ. So I took their vocabulary test and got a low score. I imagine I would have been devastated if I didn’t know what my IQ was. Unlike our president, I am no genius. Note: And neither is he. I just was never interested in building my vocabulary, not even when reading the vocabulary list in the Digest. One year I bought a book for college students, and I knew many of the words, but all I learned was the word “replete.” The other unknown words were just not that interesting. The other day when I read the Digest I learned the word “patty pan,” as it was the only interesting word in their list. It is another word for summer squash. Why would anyone need to know that word? Who even uses it? I wonder if my grocer would even know what it is. If I remember I will ask him if they have any patty pan, and he will probably tell me that they don’t carry medical supplies. Update: I asked the produce man if he had any pattypan. He didn't know what I was talking about..
Here is a list of other names:
pattypan squash is also known as scallop squash, peter pan squash, sunburst squash, granny squash, custard marrow, custard squash, and ciblème in Cajun French
Reader’s Digest, August 2018
When I was in high school our teacher, Miss Zaph, gave us copies of the Reader’s Digest each month, and we
had to place an x mark on the stories she wanted us to read. I can’t say that I enjoyed the Digest even then, and I am not sure why she had thought that they were educational.
Miss Zaph was a strange lady. She wore a hearing aid and used to turn it off at times, and during these times the class would get rowdy. Maybe that wasn’t so strange after all. I also remember how we all once laughed when we heard an ambulance pass by. She scolded the class, giving us a lecture on compassion. We never laughed again.
My mother loved the Reader’s Digest too, and when I was married she once sent me a year’s subscription. It made for a good bathroom read when it came to the jokes in it. Only the jokes were never that great, and as I found out, because I just purchased a year’s subscription on my kindle for only $5 a year, they are still terrible.
I mostly remember the stories where people survived bear attacks. This is the reason why I am frightened of bears to this very day. This is why I didn’t want to go to Yellowstone a few years back. This is why when I was married to my first husband and we had taken a trip to Yosemite and had to sleep in our car, I did not want to get out at night to use the bathroom. I did anyway. I rushed out of the car, squatted, and ran to get back inside.
What bothers me most about the Digest is that their stories are all condensed, and they are obviously edited by the same person as the style never changes. For example, If you read a Hemmingway book it will sound like Little Women.
The Reader’s Digest Condensed books given to our library each year, so someone likes them, but we can never sell them at our yearly book sale, which tells you that we Okies are not all stupid. Instead the books always find their way to the city dump. One year my friend Toni was making boxes out of old Reader Digest covers. She even made me one. I gathered up all the old cloth covered Digests and brought them to her, and she tore out all the pages leaving just the cover. I tried to make some, but with my eye site they were a mess, which is also why some of my reviews are a mess. My husband took a try at it because he saw what a mess I was making. The Crazy Glue made a mess out of his too, just a small one. I kept it because he made it.
What made me think of getting the Digest? Well, it had been on my mind for some reason. I see them at the checkout stand at the grocery store, and they are expensive for what they are. I had also read an article saying that our president had an IQ of 90 or so because he only uses a vocabulary of 700 words. Someone took note. I doubt if my own is any better, but I know that there are many words that I never use. I know this because I see them when I am reading. I imagine that he doesn’t use all the words that he knows either, but I don’t doubt that his IQ is low, that is, if a master manipulator can have a low IQ. So I took their vocabulary test and got a low score. I imagine I would have been devastated if I didn’t know what my IQ was. Unlike our president, I am no genius. Note: And neither is he. I just was never interested in building my vocabulary, not even when reading the vocabulary list in the Digest. One year I bought a book for college students, and I knew many of the words, but all I learned was the word “replete.” The other unknown words were just not that interesting. The other day when I read the Digest I learned the word “patty pan,” as it was the only interesting word in their list. It is another word for summer squash. Why would anyone need to know that word? Who even uses it? I wonder if my grocer would even know what it is. If I remember I will ask him if they have any patty pan, and he will probably tell me that they don’t carry medical supplies. Update: I asked the produce man if he had any pattypan. He didn't know what I was talking about..
Here is a list of other names:
pattypan squash is also known as scallop squash, peter pan squash, sunburst squash, granny squash, custard marrow, custard squash, and ciblème in Cajun French
December 27, 2016
Every few years I decide to order Reader's Digest and 2016 was that year. Some things are a little goofy and some stories are pretty good. I don't think I will renew though because I do love books! This review is for the June 2016 issue.
July/Aug 2016 issue read August 14-August 17
Sept issue read Sept 27-30
October issue read Oct 20-23
December issue read Dec 16-19
July/Aug 2016 issue read August 14-August 17
Sept issue read Sept 27-30
October issue read Oct 20-23
December issue read Dec 16-19
July 3, 2021
Happy tears.
March 8, 2022
I don't know that Reader's Digest really counts as a book but I love getting them every month and reading them cover to cover. Especially during the 2020 pandemic the everyday heros and joke pages brought so much hope and joy to me. I've loved RD since I was a kid and it's still great.
There have been articles that have really changed my life- only one have I kept on my shelf Sept 2014's The Late Bloomer Phenomenon- based off Malcolm Gladwell's book What the Dog Saw. It gave me hope that while I was knee deep in mothering, my identity wasn't lost, my story wasn't over. There is always hope to greatness late in life or perhaps more importantly the greatness of giving your life time for the greatness of your love ones. My life is a "love story."
There have been articles that have really changed my life- only one have I kept on my shelf Sept 2014's The Late Bloomer Phenomenon- based off Malcolm Gladwell's book What the Dog Saw. It gave me hope that while I was knee deep in mothering, my identity wasn't lost, my story wasn't over. There is always hope to greatness late in life or perhaps more importantly the greatness of giving your life time for the greatness of your love ones. My life is a "love story."
April 8, 2012
I know I am late reading this magazine. However, I thought this issue contained some good information I can use in this future.
April 6, 2013
Best Magazine Anywhere!
September 20, 2016
April 2016 issue : liked info on YouTube, Power of Gratitude and Good Money habits
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December 5, 2019
Read in rehab at Brookstone
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