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You should check out the Read Green Initiative.

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Not sure if it works on the kindle/iphone yet, but magazines like Saveur are available.

I am ALWAYS referring to recipes online while I'm cooking, and it would really help to have them portable (on the iphone, if I had one.) However, I wonder about touching the precious iphone with hands dirty/wet from cooking!

I like getting receipes online, but I like having printed versions to cook from. Nothing like having to review a set of instructions several times when you're trying to figure out how to de-bone a chicken to make you realize that. I can chuck a chickeny piece of paper, but having to wash my hands thoroughly to scroll down or enlarge and image several times would drive me mad.

There is something really satisfying about opening up a food magazine and being inspired by pictures, etc. But, I do agree, way too many magazine laying on the floor of my bedroom next to my bed.

But, again they are disposable, and easy to clean. You can just throw them away:)

But, now with the internet being so readily available, I get my recipes online too. I have the new kindle, and an iphone. Both I think would be rather difficult to keep clean in my kitchen.

It is nice to sit back with my latest issue of Food & Wine or Gourmet and flip through the pages and look at the recipes and beautiful photography. It's a tangible thing. I'm not sure how I'd feel about sitting back with the kindle, when I want a magazine. Yes, I use my laptop for almost everything, but sometimes it's just nice to have a magazine to flip through.

I access thekitchn through my Touch iPod if I get a wi-fi connection and browse to the recipe before I hit the market. But the fonts are too small without extensive (yet intuitive) zooming. The same holds for most every other foodie website. I know of some news sites that feature an iPhone friendly format that makes them a tad easier to access, but the killer mobile device and websurfing still doesn't exist but iPhone/Touch iPod are closest (I am biased).

I keep waiting for Apple to release a "Kindle" killer...not that the Kindle doesn't have high points, but even 2.0 looks kludgy and more importantly for food magazines, black and white is a killer. For instance "Garbage Pail Pasta" would look like garbage in black and white. IMHO.

Hard for me to choose. I do find the majority of my recipes online but because I don't have a laptop, I usually print them out to take to the kitchen. And that means I can scribble down notes and changes I've made as I go along.

However, I enjoy reading magazines (and books, too) for more than just the information they contain. I love holding them, the act of turning pages, the feel of paper. I like to read in the bathtub and I actually like the aesthetics of a pile of books or magazines by my bedside.

As more and more of my time is spent in front of a computer, reading a book or a magazine becomes a break from the ubiquitous screen. I sometimes even sigh with relief when I finally plop down at the end of the day and pick up a srtay copy of Gourmet to leaf though. Oh, and leafing through a magazine online is not the same as leafing through a 'real' one.

But in the end I have to admit that environmental concerns are making me take a second look at things like Kindle. No paper, no toxic ink, no fossil fuel to transport...it's going to be a rough choice.

I often cook from online recipes, which probably means I should just put saran wrap over the keyboard and be done with it, but I love the tactile sensation of reading a magazine. Also, a magazine's battery can't die on you halfway through a recipe.

When e-book readers finally go color, battery life shouldn't be an issue and then, maybe, I could see going that route. Especially since, yeah, having them searchable would make my old mags a lot more useful.

I will never give up my magazines.... they just bring me too much joy!

No!

The pleasure of a food magazine is in handling, ogling, and generally enjoying the print. I use the web for recipe searching, often for titles to which I subscribe, but it isn't nearly as inspirational.

And I don't throw them away. Every six months or so I put a note on Craig's List and give them away. Someone always wants them.

You can already get Saveur as a digital subscription. I found it through Barnes and Noble's magazine subscription section.

I feel guilty about buying magazines most of the time, because I'm always thinking that each magazine comes from a tree. But at the same time i love sitting down and reading them, I find reading them electronically kinda weird.