Re: S & T uses low end paper



Brian Tung wrote:

> Doink wrote:
> > I struggle with renewing S&T every year. The reviews are silly---ever
> > seen a bad review? You can read everything of value in the mag in about
> > an hour...it's a bit over priced too. But, the alternatives aren't any
> > better....
>
> I've seen a bad review (by which I assume you mean a review that pans
> the product) of software and books. Not as much on mounts, and hardly
> ever on telescopes. It is natural and human to want to emphasize the
> good points of a product, and even to justify some of the bad ones by
> pointing out

baloney x10E9.



> , well, the product doesn't cost that much, once you make
> a few tweaks it works very well, etc. I doubt that Sky and Telescope
> have much of a role in that, if any; reviewers are perfectly capable
> of doing that on their own.
>
> That it's natural and human doesn't mean that it's good, of course. I
> would like to see more comparative reviews, but those are harder to
> research and write, I suspect.
>
> I spend rather more than an hour to read everything I find of value in
> Sky and Telescope. But I'm pretty broad in my interests. If there's
> anything I don't read as much of, it's telescope reviews, anyway. I'm
> more interested in finding out what to do with the telescope I already
> own than I am in deciding what telescope I'm not going to replace it
> with. :)
>
> That said, a good telescope review usually teaches me something about
> telescopes I didn't know before.
>
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