Magazines - Throw away or keep

[mgbpuff]

I have accumulated audiophile magazines for a long time. I probably have Stereophile, TAS, and S&V for the last twenty, maybe thirty years. I started throwing them in bins to get rid of them, but I now have second thoughts. What do you think I should do with them?

[emofrmcgy]

[DYohn]

Recycle

[LCSeminole]

About 10 or so years ago, I donated my Home Theater Magazine and S&V to the local library. Not sure if a library would want them today, if not, then recycle like David suggested.

[boomzilla]

Almost all content is now available online. Recycle the mags as paper.

[ottaone]

If recycling all is too much to bear right now, keep special editions, which is what I did with some of my magazines.

[mgbpuff]

Low response, but some quality people I respect on here say to recycle. So that's what I'll do and with no regrets as this eases my mind about ditching 20 some years of collecting them.

[SteveH]

Recycle!!!! If your local Waste Authority decides to dispose of them differently, that is okay, at least you know you did your part.

[klinemj]

I don't get any of the magazines listed, but the magazines we do get are always recycled with the exception of some very special editions that I keep. I like to keep the special edition Rolling Stone magazines, like ones on Dylan, Prince, etc.

Mark

[donh50]

Recycle. In addition to my huge stack of old audio (and 4WD, and woodworking, and photography, and...) magazines we've have two parents and my older sister pass away in the past two years. Three different towns, different states, and the libraries said they did not want the old magazines. A senior center offered to take some but said they get so many they cannot handle more than a few per person.

I have a few audio mags I have retained for nostalgia but by and large I find I do better throwing them in a box with a label and, if I have not looked in the box for a year or ten, then I do NOT open it but put it on the curb to be recycled to avoid temptation. You know, the sense that, even though you haven't missed it in years, there may be something desperately important and worth saving in that box, if only you open it and look... Don't!

[405x5]

Dec 1, 2019 13:10:59 GMT -5 mgbpuff said:

I have accumulated audiophile magazines for a long time. I probably have Stereophile, TAS, and S&V for the last twenty, maybe thirty years. I started throwing them in bins to get rid of them, but I now have second thoughts. What do you think I should do with them?

I have only one saved magazine from December 1987 (long gone "High Fidelity"). 
On the cover, is pictured one of only 100 Allison Acoustics IC20 Loudspeaker cabinets ever built for production, which received a 1987product of the year award.
Since I still have my pair, I save it for sentimental reasons along with the articles that came out at the time.

The only other magazine I've saved is a Superman comic book that I was told in the early Eighties (by a serious collector) might end up being worth a lot of money.
Like a dope, I misplaced it for 25 years, then found it again!
I ran to look it up on Ebay and found out it's now worth a rip roaring four dollars and 99 cents.

Bill

[gus4emo]

Keep some.