[Closed] I am a member of Collectible Automobile for many years now.

Now ... MECUM has become my goto spot

Collectible Automobile........

NZ Classic Car, NZ Driver. A good friend recently deseased subscribed to around 6 or 8 auto related publications originating from Aotearoa, Australia, England and the US, & I used to read those magazine at his place during weekly visits.

Now though I subscribe to no magazines or newspapers of any description. However, I rely now on news feeds and YouTube for all the information you could ever want and do so without shame or regret.

I do read a lot of books though, I could never not do that and the Mrs is looking into buying a Kindle since the town library has closed for the duration.

I have them all too, George, as well as every issue of Hemmings Classic Car.

My hardback library of car books numbers about 200 and started back when I was in grad school in the '70s. I think I'm going to start donating them to the library, though, when it opens up again after the current unpleasantness.

Aotearoa?

Bruce I also read a lot and my library is more than full. Even with the books I donated to the l library. Got into Kindle and have gone through two readers. Now I have a Kindle Fire and strongly suggest thats the direction for you to go in. In many ways it's a mini computer.

Last year for the 40 days of Lent, I donated a car book a day to our local library. I'm doing the same thing this year. I set aside the 40 books and then take them to the library. Last year, they were very well received and appreciated.

Sad that you've given up on books. As I stated before, I never will.

Because of our colonial past, John that included renaming most things to remind homesick settlers of where they originated - England and Scotland, mainly but not exclusively, existing name use by the indigenes polynesian people, Maori, were written over - renamed or anglocized.
New Zealand the name given by the British and in some way connected to the earlier voyages of discovery by Dutch Explorer, Abel Tasman - Zealand is a Dutch province, who pre-dated Englishman, James Cook who lit the spark of British Settlement.
Maori had no name given to describe the entire country, but instead gave names to individual tribal lands.

At some point in the late 19th century, Maori thought they should have a name to describe all the country and so Aotearoa was chosen. This means, Land of the Long White Cloud.
As Maori renaissance grew and our country became officially bicultural people began to use the Maori name increasingly more often as the counties earlier identity as South Sea Island Poms- Limeys in US parlance, identified more closely as a Pacific nation, rather than an outpost of the British Isles.
The history is far more complex, but that is about the gist of it.

From suggestions made here, Tom, the Mrs, is a voracious reader of the printed word. She is collecting some retail Intel., that will lead to the good woman buying a Kindle.
I may well do that too, but doubt it because I was raised to not only enjoy reading but to value books themselves as treasures, and nothing will or even could change that.

I have a monthly subscription to Automobile Magazine..

which my son buys me every Christmas. It's something I can't drink, he doesn't have to think about, and as a bonus it gives my wife an hour's peace when it arrives through the mail...me reading it not her. She's about as au fait with old cars as I am with knitting fog.

Thanks! I've never heard the name before.

George, is Lent similar to Ramadan?

I remember when Car magazine first came out. This was around 1961...

it was initially called Small Car and Mini Owner - a bit of a mouthful. The Editor was a young Doug Blain who has since been involved in all aspects of the motoring press. The magazine was notable in being honest, even disparaging, about cars in the road tests they did. This had a great influence on the motoring press which gradually shed its tendency to avoid any criticism of cars that were tested.

I used to subscribe to quite a few of them. Now, it's just Motor Trend and Automobile magazine.

The car companies usually release the new models at the same time and every car mag puts their spin on the same car. Usually, once one article is read, they all have been read.

For this reason I will drop Automobile.

Hagerty and Mopar Collector's Guide.