The best part (for me) was not only the enforced curation but the exposure to "stuff you didn't know you wanted to know about". With the modern Internet you go

The best part (for me) was not only the enforced curation but the exposure to "stuff you didn't know you wanted to know about". With the modern Internet you go right to what you want and rarely see links to things you don't know about already - magazines were great for that, especially on a train ride where you have nothing much better to do than read the "other parts".