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- Go to Readers Digest is filing for bankruptcy...
It is too bad. I used to enjoy it too, even gave it as Xmas presents, but like WIley and Kabu, got tired of the Sweepstake mail (loads of it!!) and the advertising. Are they keeping the books part, I wonder? I have quite a few of those.....
posted by
adnohr
on February 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM
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I used to be an avid reader of RD years ago, but have also fallen off the track to pick it up any more. It's a shame. Nothing lasts for ever . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on February 20, 2013 at 3:05 AM
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PatB
I gave it up years ago, when they buried me with envelopes telling me how much I was going to win all the time. I won't really miss them.
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 19, 2013 at 8:24 PM
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the digest died for me when I got half a page of story or funnies and the
rest adverts. Also I used to have it sent for years and years...but then the junk mail was so overloading that I had to let RD. go when I moved...gave no forwarding address.
posted by
Kabu
on February 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM
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They had some great jokes... Some of the best ones I ever heard!
There was the one about the 6 yr old boy who was driving with his parents through northern Idaho and saw a park with a high fence, with greyhounds painted on it. He asked what that place was, and his mom told him, "It's a dog-racing park, where people race dogs." He thought about that, then piped up, "I bet mostly the dogs win."
posted by
Ciel
on February 19, 2013 at 1:47 PM
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I had an old aunt who loved it so much that she wanted everyone to have it. She would buy gift subscriptions for Christmas and Birthday presents and keep them going for years and years. She started mine in 1958 and kept it going until she died in 1982. Each edition became the new coffee table staple and everyone, husband, sons, visitors, took their turns with it.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 19, 2013 at 10:01 AM
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Used to subscribe years ago Pat. Liked the stories in those days. Things change we remember but the appeal wanes.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 19, 2013 at 8:17 AM
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Pat
I understand it was an 'institution', but one that I only visited occasionally, usually in my dentist's waiting room. I have always preferred my reading undigested...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 19, 2013 at 8:00 AM
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