I subscribe to popular science magazine. It’s a great source of light reading, but the advertising in the magazine is completely untargeted. Also, the renewal notices that are present in every single copy are irritating, as are the heavy stock inserts from car manufacturers.

I paid for that magazine, i think it should be tuned a bit better for me. This is why Xerox’s high end printer technology, like the iGen series printers are so cool. They can create custom magazines and books and such at speeds matching conventional presses.

I dont mind reading advertisements for jeep parts, computer electronics, etc, but if I see one more add for athena pheremone 5x i’m going to go bonkers.

This response is likely completely off base with your original post, but it’s something that you brought up in my mind when you mentioned physical constraints on individual magazine articles.