Magazines

[ILC]

Im starting to get quite a collection of magazines. How do you all store them? I hate just piling them up, looks tacky and hard to find the one you need. Not very space efficient either. Any suggestions?

ILC

[Brainchild]

My brother bought a magazine rack from a local convinence store for a few bucks to store all his Hotrod Mags

Of course this prolly won't work in a married mans living room

[ILC]

I thought about that, but how many magazines can they hold? I thought they were mostly for the current magazines you may have.

ILC

[Brainchild]

Hmm not sure about that, prolly 50 or so, so maybe that's not optimal.

[U-96]

Some stationers and specialist comic shops sell binders with metal strips that you can feed through staples in the thinner mags and comics.

However, if your magazines are thick or glue-bound, you could try something like a magazine box, or failing that, large plastic crates in the garage

[Theophylact]

I don't save them all, anymore. I used to have a collection of Scientific American going back to 1963, but I just gave away all but the last three or four years of it. Ditto with Gourmet. I keep Metalsmith, Cook's Illustrated, and Whole Earth. Everything else, I keep for no more than a year at most (Atlantic, Harper's, Smithsonian); usually only a couple of months (New Yorker, New York Review of Books) or weeks (Nation). The rest (Science, New Scientist, American Scientist, PC Magazine, Wired, Funny Times) I bring in to the office and give away there. There's a bunch of other ones that I can't bring to mind right now as well, but except for Washington Consumer Magazine, which comes out erratically, I don't keep any of them.

The house is too full of books to leave much room for magazines.

Libraries often use glue binding to keep journals and mags in sets. Makes 'em hard to read, though, IMO.

And you also used to be able to get binders with plastic inserts that held the middle of the mag in to them. Could fit twenty or so mags into these from memory (of the type I used to use). A bit like the ones here. Not very expensive, and quite neat.

Cheers
Mick

[larrwhit]

Drill holes about 4 inches apart in a couple of 2 by 2 boards and put fish line or heavy string through the holes. nail them along an unused wall so the strings run horizontally and hang the mags from them so they hang like shingles on an outside wall. with a 8 foot high room start a foot off the floor and you would have 21 horizontal strings the length of the wall. it would hols a lot of mags. if the room is long just put a center 2X2 fro extra support

[larrwhit]

Drill holes about 4 inches apart in a couple of 2 by 2 boards and put fish line or heavy string through the holes. nail them along an unused wall so the strings run horizontally and hang the mags from them so they hang like shingles on an outside wall. with a 8 foot high room start a foot off the floor and you would have 21 horizontal strings the length of the wall. it would hols a lot of mags. if the room is long just put a center 2X2 fro extra support

heres a quick sketch to help explain the rig

[cowboybooter]

Just recycle them all and use the internet. Or, scan them first, and export to CD-Rom ?


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