A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing Barnes & Noble's newsstand on my Nook, and was thrilled to find that there was one horse magazine available, Horse & Rider.  Not long ago there weren't any available on the Nook, so this was big news.

Today, as I was getting ready to write this post, I checked again, and now there are three!  Practical Horseman and Horse Journal have joined the ranks.  I'm hoping Horse Illustrated will be next in line.

So far, I'm loving the Nook subscriptions of the magazines.  For one thing, I can cancel them at any time, and I'm only charged a couple of dollars per month for each issue (instead of one lump sum that locks me into the entire year).  And even better, I don't have stacks of magazines to find space for.  There is inevitably, in every issue, an article I want to keep.  Well, now I can do so simply by archiving each issue, and it doesn't take up any additional physical space in my house.

I've gotten trial subscriptions to all three magazines (it's free for the first 2 weeks, at the end of which you are charged for your issue if you did not cancel the subscription).  I'm not sure yet which I'm going to keep.  Since I ride English, Horse & Rider is actually not as applicable to me, whereas the other two magazines are.  However, I found some of the articles in Horse & Rider to be useful regardless of which discipline I ride in, so I may keep it for now.  I'm not as certain about Horse Journal -- I've never read it before, and I'm not sure I've even seen it that much, so I don't know yet whether I'll like it.  Practical Horseman, with its articles on English riding and jumping, so far seems like the winner of the three, if I choose to keep only one.

In any case, having a Nook has encouraged me to start reading horse magazines again, and I'm glad!