As an ongoing Christmas present I usually get an annual subscription to a couple of magazines. When they arrive I usually skip through them seeing if there's anything of immediate interest. I then put them to one side to read in greater depth when I have more time to take in what's of interest. Consequently they can be lying around for a month or more. This irritates the missus and she's often having a moan that I appear not to have read them. She seems to expect me to read them from cover to cover within a week.
I get them when I get them, they get carried next to the bog when I go, then I read them slowly over the course of several days, and find I run out just before they start arriving again.