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How To Indulge In Your Magazine Habit Without Spending A Bundle

October 30, 2017 by Susan

This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here.

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I love magazines. But until recently, I rarely treated myself to buying and reading many magazines because they’re just too expensive. Usually the only time I splurge and buy a few is when I’m going on an airplane. And I’m always shocked at the cost.

But now I can indulge every day in ALL my favorite magazines. Yes, I can hop from catching up on a little celebrity gossip to finding recipe inspiration and ideas for new DIY projects to seeing the latest fashion styles… all on my iPhone or iPad.

How To Indulge In Your Magazine Habit Without Spending A Bundle

With one app I can choose from over 200 of the world’s best magazines. Plus, once I have chosen them, I can create my own personalized library to keep going back to what I love most.

When the folks at Texture Canada asked me to review their app, I happily agreed. I’d heard about Texture, but I hadn’t actually tried it. Well, now I am officially hooked.

For one low monthly price, my family and I can read hundreds of magazines. I love that I can download the magazines to read offline on my iPad when I’m not near WiFi.

Why Bloggers Need To Read Magazines

As bloggers, I think it’s really important to find inspiration and new ideas from well written and beautifully laid out articles and stories. Running a blog is a lot like running a small magazine, so we can learn from reading as many magazines as possible.

Texture - Reading a Magazine

Janice and I love to browse recipe and crafts magazines to get our creative juices flowing. It’s especially useful to see how they layout the food photos. Photography and headlines are two of the most important parts of blogging… and we can learn so much from watching what the pros do.

Turn Your Kids’ Screen Time Into Reading Time

But one of the main reasons I’m so excited about Texture is to get my kids reading more magazines.

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In the past, I’ve purchased some copies of these titles at the store, but the cover price of each is huge. So I love that now they can read current and back issues of all these titles.

My kids spend so much time on my iPad, so I’m going to show them all these fantastic magazines.

How Texture Works

Texture is an app that allows you unlimited access to 200+ magazines for a monthly subscription.

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You can access current and back issues from the most popular magazine titles including People, Us Weekly, TIME, Rolling Stone, etc. anytime, anywhere.

I love that you can save your favorite magazines, download and read offline, and save and sort your favourite articles to read later.

Texture App Library - Favourite Magazines

You can download Texture from app stores to use on your tablet and smartphone. It’s a mobile app, so there is no desktop version.

The enhanced search functions allow you to search the entire catalogue by magazine title, article topic or subject. This is such a wonderful feature to find content for your kids.

Texture Search

The basic plan for Canadians is $9.99 per month, which includes access to monthly titles and a premium plan for $14.99 per month includes monthly AND weekly magazines. If you want to give it a try, please head to texture.ca to create your account.

You can use the code 5minformom to get 30% off a premium subscription for 3 months, PLUS 30 days free. When you are done creating the account, head to your app store to download the app and start reading!

 

For Canadians, you can find out more at www.texture.ca and on their social channels…

Facebook: Texture Canada
Twitter: @texturecanada
Instagram: @texturecanada
YouTube: Texture Canada

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Disclosure: This post is sponsored, so extra thanks for reading and sharing.
Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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21 Comments

  1. Toni | Boulder Locavore says

    November 21, 2017 at 3:11 am

    This is amazing!! I love reading magazines! Will definitely check this out!

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  2. Sarah says

    November 21, 2017 at 12:58 am

    Great tips! I love magazines but stopped reading them because they were getting expensive. Going to use your tips!

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  3. Sinisa says

    November 20, 2017 at 11:02 pm

    I love this. I miss getting magazines in the mail. This is a great alternative.

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  4. Liz Mays says

    November 20, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    I love reading magazines and I even look back through some of my older ones sometimes. I definitely think one of these subscriptions would be a good idea.

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  5. Randi says

    November 20, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    I love flipping through inspiring magazines … and who doesn’t want to save money on subscriptions?

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  6. Amy Desrosiers says

    November 20, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    I do love reading magazines, but I feel like the art of flipping through pages is what I love. I have to check out this app though.

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  7. Kathy says

    November 20, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    I love magazines. I use to read them a lot, but now not so much. I know subscriptions are a lot cheaper too. I’ve even found free subscriptions too!

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  8. Claudia K says

    November 20, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    Texture sounds like a great way to read magazines and stay up to date. A fun way for the whole family to read magazines.

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  9. Pam says

    November 20, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    I really enjoy reading magazines. I need to check out Texture to get ,y magazine fix without spending too ,ugh money.

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  10. Brianne says

    November 20, 2017 at 7:33 pm

    I’m loving this posts so much says the mom who just bought three magazines while waiting in line at Whole Foods! Magazines are the best and really perfect for the whole family!

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  11. robin rue says

    November 20, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    My sister is a gossip magazine hoarder. She not only reads every single one, she keeps most of them!!

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  12. Reesa says

    November 20, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    I love reading magazines for inspiration. Thank you for the great discount code!

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  13. Connie says

    November 20, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    I just got rid of a stack of magazines the other day. This app is a great idea.

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  14. Angela says

    November 20, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    I’m tired of all the paper but love reading magazines. This is just what I need.

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  15. Jeanette says

    November 20, 2017 at 1:46 pm

    I think this is perfect. I travel quite a lot in one of my favorite past times while I’m traveling is reading magazines. This would be a great way to have axis to all my magazines in one spot and only have to carry one thing.

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  16. Brandy says

    November 20, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    As a true magazine addict with old magazines piled into many boxes for later crafting use, I thank you for this app! I will have to check it out!

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  17. Melanie says

    November 20, 2017 at 11:15 am

    That sounds awesome! I read magazines to relax, but hadn’t considered how important they are to my blogging business. Not having to clutter up my coffee table or stretch my wallet makes it such a no-brainer.

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  18. Scott says

    November 20, 2017 at 10:07 am

    I used to use a similar service, but let it lapse. That’s a great price point though – will look into it more!

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  19. Colleen Lanin says

    November 20, 2017 at 8:48 am

    I’m a big magazine lover, so I MUST try Texture. I think it’s so nice to be able to just read all my favorites right there on my tablet.

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  20. Stacie @ Divine Lifestyle says

    November 20, 2017 at 8:46 am

    Texture sounds amazing! I read A LOT of magazines, so this is super cost effective for me.

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  21. Mama to 6 Blessings says

    November 20, 2017 at 8:33 am

    The National Geographics magazine looks great for our homeschooling! What a great selection and choices!

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