Readers Digest

[jennyjoan]

Do you read them

[bookbinder]

Haven't read it for many, many years. Is it still available?

[Mamyalynne]

Used to love browsing through them , as above I haven't read one for a while.

100 years since it all began next year.

[Ken4155]

Last one i read was in a doctor's surgery many, many moons back.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/

[pastafreak]

I grew up reading them. Haven't seen one in years...and years.

[douglas9401]

I was usually too tired to read anything after going through all the faff to enter their prize draws.

[Vagus]

I read loads of their hardback condensed books, The Kontiki Expedition, and Century of the Surgeon are two I particularly remember.

[pastafreak]

We had the condensed books on our bookshelves when I was young. In fact, I think they were the only books...my sister subscribed to them.

[jennyjoan]

my mother bought the soft backed ones and I remember as a kid would have enjoyed some of it BUT I do forget. Was it just wee storys etc or real life.

Do you buy them monthly, annually etc and can you buy hard backed.

I am tired of watching Television and have been refused to go back to an old school teacher to try and learn the organ/piano because of his fear of Covid.

[gness]

I quite enjoyed reading them in the waiting room of my UK dentist.

My parents didn't approve of a nose in a book so they only ever gave me one which must have been an accidental purchase by my dad.

It's The Reader's Digest Junior Treasury and I treasured it then, sixty one years ago, and I still have it in my bookcase....battered and foxed.

[jennyjoan]

Ah - that's nice gness

[gness]

I really don't know how I still have it, JJ. My mother threw me out at fifteen and put all my possessions in the bin. She must have missed the book and it somehow got to me. It's the only thing I have from my childhood.
I treasured a little magnetic, Muffin the Mule but found a replacement a few years ago in Devon. Not the same but nice memories of the aunt who gave it to me.

[burlyshirley]

Used to read it all the time, years ago !

[Bobbisox1]

Many years ago I’d send for their music collections, I’ve always loved music above all else, at first it was tapes( remember them?) then CDs , now I download MP3s such is progress

[jennyjoan]

I have a photo o f my mother at her door she was on her way. To get married it is the only one. It is size of a thumbnail but i am gettong enlarged and frsmed to sit by my dad im on ipad

[barry1010]

I buy them from charity shops, often an interesting read.

[barry1010]

Still going, £23 a year