Is Reader's Digest Magazine worth the money?

I had not read it for years. Thanks for telling me that if not I would have bought it!

Then they wouldn't make as much mioney. Where's your sense of greed?

I have had a subscription to it, won't again, it's too boring and now a waste of money.....YAWN

No. It is bland and colorless. You are right, most of the magazine is advertising. It is a waste of time and money. The condensed books are great however, I read War and Peace in 10 minutes.

no its not worth the money because most information/stories can be found on the internet if you know where to look

my grandmother reads it, that should answer your question

I would rather spend my $$$ on Cosmo: same format, useful information (although many of the "articles" are really also thinly veiled ads) and it makes me feel young and hip just picking it up at the grocery store, whereas RD makes me feel instantly like an old fogey.

Have you really looked at any other magazine.. They are all ads. Prob 90% ads and 10% articles. I know its frustrating but without em the mag would cost 10x as much. Readers Digest at least as good quality articles and prob the ratio is somewhere between 30% ads and 70% articles. A magazine circulated for free couldn't be done as they would go under with no funds to print and pay the contributors.

It used to be worth its weight in gold up till the end of the past century when it started concentrating on diet, saving money and unessential moralizing. Ads are the lifeblood of publications, no doubt, and there's no such thing as a free lunch !!!