Today I broke a practice of a lifetime, I bought the latest Leisure Painter even though the thing was sealed in a plastic bag. I never buy mags sealed in bags because the publisher is using it as a tool to impose a lot of advertising material on me that I have to dispose of. I always leave the excess pulped trees that float loose in the mag on the newsagent's floor in the hope that if enough people do it the newsagentts will become tired of clearing the mess and then complain to the publishers You can't do that when it's sealed in a bag; not only that, you can't thumb through the mag to see if it's worth the £3.70. When I got home and finally slashed my way into the packet, there it was, another pile of forest waiting for recycling, something about painting holidays it said on the front, I diidn't actually open it, straight out of the said plastic bag and into in the recycling bin. Are the readers of the mag not capable of sorting these out from the many pages of ads in the mag. I wil not be caught out again, if it appears in a sealed plastic bag again, the mag will stay on the newsagent shelf. Image from Imagine It SCI-FI premium graphic images, MacMillan Publishing