Old magazines

[Rick Potter]

I was afraid I would get answers like this. I guess it's nice to know I am not alone. I will try CL, and then I will continue to give some to friends who would appreciate them, and the rest to Goodwill.

Thanks guys.

[Wayne Lovell]

If there is a Half Price bookstore (this is the actual name of the chain not just a generic description of used bookstores) in your area you might call them, most of them have a used magazine section but I have not noticed woodworking magazines. If not call some of the recycling places that buy paper, a long time ago we had a "coffee fund" at the company I worked for they used to ask people to bring their old news papers etc. and would take them to a place near us and sell them. For a while they got pretty good money for them and then the market got glutted and they almost had to beg them to take them the last time they took any. I repeat that this was a long long time ago and I have no idea what the current market is on used paper.

[Jim Becker]

I recycle such things. With few exceptions, they have almost no value.

[Greg R Bradley]

Just find the next guy that knows they must be valuable and saves them. That's how I ended up with so much. I can generally count on anything I save turning out to be worthless and the stuff I toss or sell cheap ending up valuable.

[Brian Henderson]

I'm in the middle of packing for a move and I had the same problem. Tons of magazines that I really don't want to take with me. I haven't looked at them in years. I haven't even thought about them in years. I just dumped them all in the recycling bin. They aren't worth anything, nobody wants them, let them be recycled.

[Matt Day]

I sold about 100 woodworking and remodeling mags recently on CL for $30. Sold in a day or two. Better than nothing, and I'm glad they found a new home and to get rid of them.

[Rick Potter]

Well, I just took over 200 Workbench magazines to the local Habitat ReStore. They said they were glad to get them. I plan to go back in a week or so, and see if they sold. If so, I will start with the Pop Mech, and Pop Sci collection.

[Joe Tilson]

Don't forget the local thrift stores. We have one a couple of blocks away. This is where we take ours. So far, after putting them on the shelves, they seem to be purchased within a week or so. The ladies who run the store say that people do buy them.

[Curt Harms]

Went through this several years back. I had full collections of FWW, Wood and several others including metal working mags like Home Machinist. Hated to get rid of them but they took up a LOT of space. Tried selling them on CL but I couldn't even give them away. About that time I picked up a decent printer/scanner with ADF and duplex scanning capability. On a whim I cut the spine off one and fed it through and converted them to PDF, worked like a charm! I don't often look though them but it is nice when I'm looking for a project or a specific edition to have it on hand. Working a little at a time I scanned all 600+ and keep them on a external drive, about 600gb in all.

Mike

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I'm doing similar but just cut out the pages that are or may be of interest. You can get a lot of pages in a pretty small place . I don't have a duplex scanner so it takes a little longer.