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avalys
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A Fond Farewell
Readers Digest was just a general interest collection of articles, wasn’t it? I don’t remember it being particularly made-up.
I mainly read it for the jokes, as I recall.
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I used to look forward to RD in the pre internet times, it was great medium form reading.
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It reprinted articles from other popular magazines, often in an abridged format (shortened, glossing over the boring details). I think by the 1980s though, quite a few of the articles were original.
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I mainly read it for the jokes, as I recall.