I love sitting at my dining table on Sunday mornings while eating brunch and flipping through the pile of home & garden, environmental, architecture, design (namely: Azure, Natural Home, Adbusters, Plenty and whatever other magazine I might pick up a single copy of) magazines. Lately, I have been including a session of 'flipping' through digital versions of Plenty and other magazines as well, on my laptop. In order to cut back to just the 4 magazines I have a subscription to (which my roommate also reads, and which I always refer back to, even years later), digital magazines work really well! Some of these magazines are those that also produce a paper copy (like Plenty), but some of these are strictly digital. Even if you look back on old issues of Plenty, for instance, you are saving the shipping cost/resources from back issue-ordering. I think these digital mags are great to also try out a magazine before you commit to subscribing.

Here's a list of some digital magazines that I have come across:

Lovely Magazine - is a magazine about the usual 'women' things: clothes, skincare, lifestyle etc. The cool thing about it is, since it is digital, you can click on links, red-circled sections and other things to give you more information and direct access to websites. So far there are three issues available: November, December and January. Not bad for free. You can sign up to receive an email when the new issue is online, which is rather handy.

The Atlantic, a political, news-type magazine has full access to their articles online.

The News Directory links you to thousands of free articles from newspapers and magazines around the world.

Business Week offers digital versions of past issues on their website.

Elemente magazine is a Calgary, Canada based 'alternative' design/architecture/lifestyle magazine with a fair amount of 'green' content. You can view their magazine in full (for free!) online.

Plenty Magazine is a great magazine that I recently subscribed to. With each paper subscription you receive free access to all their back issues (and new issues in a digital format) for free. If you'd like to subscribe to just their digital issues, it is $10 per year.

If you're interested, you can take a look at: this site which lists all the various ways magazines are improving their websites, offering information digitally, providing videos and podcasts and more.

Question: Do you know of any other magazines that have digital versions online, for free or cheap? Let us know in your comments!