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12th June 2010, 08:11 PM #1
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What to do With a Magazine Collection
Years ago when the internet did not exist, no electronic storage, no personal computers and I am sure you get the story I used to buy books and specifically I subscribed to the National Geographic from 1964 to a few years ago. I now have all these magazines that I doubt I will ever look at as there really is no need and am wondering what to do with them. I offered them to the local library, no go, not interested, my children don't want them and I find it really difficult to bring myself to just re-cycle them. I have odd copies back into the forties (1940's that is for you young blokes and blokettes) and it seems a crying shame to just junk them.
I have been looking at the rest of my book collection and also wonder if it is worth hanging on to. for sure when I toddle off into the next world they will get tossed if not before then when we sell this joint and I have not got the space to keep them. I download books now and read on the computer and if I want a book to read I got to the library. I literally cannot remember the last time I bought a book to tell the truth and might just chuck the lot and use the space for something useful.
Has anyone else pondered the same or a similar situation?CHRIS
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12th June 2010, 08:20 PM #2
dont throw them mate. someday someone will want them. and you will be the only bloke with them.
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12th June 2010, 08:49 PM #3
What to do With a Magazine Collection
Have you thought about E-bay? If you offer them on the yank site as well I bet they'll get snapped up fairly quickly.
Another option would be a museum, they often communicate with each other and could possibly find homes.
Lastly, have you considered actually offering them to Nat Geo themselves?
I agree though, I'd hate to have to recycle them.
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13th June 2010, 12:50 AM #4
Place a copy in every doctors surgery so us blokes have got something to read...
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13th June 2010, 12:58 AM #5
If you find a good answer, let me know, as I've got a collection of SF magazines from the early 50's onwards in need of a similar solution!
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13th June 2010, 09:02 AM #6
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13th June 2010, 09:13 AM #7
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13th June 2010, 09:29 AM #8
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13th June 2010, 09:56 AM #9
My cousin was a Phantom comic collector her dad got the sh^% and threw them out he is an antique collector, So down the track years later at an auction Phantom comics came up .........needles to say he near had heart failure.
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13th June 2010, 12:15 PM #10
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13th June 2010, 12:58 PM #11
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13th June 2010, 01:40 PM #12
*Raises hand as another Phantom collector/reader*
Mini: Do you do any turning? I've seen some interesting articles on using glued up book and magazine pages as turning stock for some unique looking results.
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13th June 2010, 03:23 PM #13
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No, I don't do any turning, but it's an idea I guess.
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13th June 2010, 03:27 PM #14
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13th June 2010, 07:47 PM #15
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I sold it to him, Now if I buy it back at a knock down price and list it on Ebay, thinking...........
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