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I have just consigned my 1997 WMs to recycling, but have saved the articles that I will review at a later date. I keep two box files of them full at anyone time. The format then was not user friendly because you had to jump a few pages to finish an article. The latest revamp is a lot better. Do other talkbackers keep all their back issues?
I was wondering earlier today whether libaries want this sort of thing - perhaps for their book groups. Or Adult Education places for creative writing.
I've been thinking about this myself. I have quite a few WN & WM from about 10 years ago. I was going to list them up and offer them on here if anybody wanted them. Obviously, a lot of the info will be out of date but they might make an interesting read. If not, I'll try anywhere that may be interested before they go on ebay. Hopefully, someone will get some more use from them before they go into the recycling box.
Freecycle is great - as Amboline says - and if you're in the UK the chances are there'll be a Freecycle group near you. I believe Freecycle is international as well. On similar lines, you could try the most excellent www.free2collect.co.uk and www.gumtree.co.uk
For anyone not familiar with them, these are free-to-join website communities where people can offer and find items for FREE - all you need to do is collect. These websites offer a great way to find a new home for things that you no longer want that might be useful to someone else, and of course the chance of finding something that you need at no cost.
The range of stuff available for free is mind boggling - everything from baby clothes and pet food to domestic appliances and horse manure!
After our local Library push-off, my husband tried Oxfam. They said, "We don't take magazines." Pity, because I am so careful with them, that even after two readings, they are still unscathed.
But there is another charity shop in our posh little town.
Some good ideas there! I will have a look at that 'freecycle' soon. The cuttings, I kept, have been filed away into one of the A-Z folders Tessa mentions. I can now pull them out and read them as if they are worksheets. I have just read an article on historical fiction that appeared in a '97' issue of WM, still relevant today as it was then.
I think WN/WM should think about putting back issues onto CD. Other magazines offer this service (MacWorld offers a CD per year with all the articles from the 12 issues on it). This would cut down on my pile of mags anyway. Webbo, any thoughts??
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For anyone not familiar with them, these are free-to-join website communities where people can offer and find items for FREE - all you need to do is collect. These websites offer a great way to find a new home for things that you no longer want that might be useful to someone else, and of course the chance of finding something that you need at no cost.
The range of stuff available for free is mind boggling - everything from baby clothes and pet food to domestic appliances and horse manure!
But there is another charity shop in our posh little town.