As I spend most of my “free time” knitting, I don’t get much time to sit down and just read these days, so when Rose has a nap it’s a nice treat for me to have a cuppa and a read of something knitting-related.
I have been buying Interweave Knits since the beginning of 2005 when I finally discovered it existed. It was very much a source of inspiration for me when I was less confident and more scared of anything that involved strange techniques like stranded knitting or even circular needles. Nowadays I buy it in the hope that one day I will again be motivated enough to knit myself a sweater. 
So when I got an email from Interweave dangling a 15% discount in front of me, I decided to treat myself to some of the issues I don’t have, and started with 2004. It took 3 weeks to arrive after it was shipped, which made me a bit fidgety as I thought it might have gone the same way as my sock yarn, but it did get here, and I eagerly unwrapped it and put it into the PC.
Unfortunately, it’s not really the same, “ooh! new Interweave!”, experience when those magazines are on CD. When I bought the digital version of The Knitter, I wasn’t bothered about what else was in the magazine as I had my sights focussed on Alice Starmore goodies, but with Interweave I do like to read it cover-to-cover. Now the magazines are in pdf format, with a contents page at the side and the patterns are easy to print, but it’s not really the same as sitting on the sofa with a snoozing baby and something to read. But I have patterns aplenty now, with the Flower Basket Shawl being the first I printed off.
I think, for me, that digital magazines will only be an option for me if I’ve missed a must-have pattern and I will always prefer the feel and smell of a shiny new magazine, in much the same way that I eschew the idea of ebook readers. I suspect this is is a sign of me getting old. 
