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This article presents information on matters related to magazines. Nowadays, everybody reads magazines collections of stories on various topics and themes. There are thousands of magazines one can read. The author gets several technical magazines in addition to Electronic Design. He gets IEEE Spectrum. One has to discover, EP and RF Design. He got a dozen general interest magazines, trains, Smithsonian and Natural History that he always read; and others that he tried to read. In the 1700s and early 1800s when printers developed new capabilities for popular publications, they started selling journals or reviews and they called them "magazines" because they held so many good stores of miscellaneous information. According to the author's 1894 "Encyclopedia Britannica,"--a good witness of this period--"As from the 'pamphlet of news' arose the weekly paper, wholly devoted to the circulation of news so from the general newspaper was specialized the weekly or monthly review of literature, antiquities and science, which, when it included essay-papers, made up the magazine or miscellaneous repository of matter for information or intelligence."