I currenlty have boxes of those old Grassroots Motorsports magazines and I refrence old version often enough that I do not want to chuck them, but I also want them off of my floor. What are you guys doing with your old magazines?

I know CRX Lee had a thread not too long ago on something similiar, but I believe he wanted to get rid of them and not keep them.

Anyone care to tell what they do?

 

buy a bookshelf

 

Yup, mine have their own row on my bookshelf... GRM is the only mag that I get that is worth keeping.

 

That's what I did. Got a nice big bookshelf devoted strictly to car mags. Look into something with strong shelves though, as the weight tends to be pretty heavy. The aluminum or whatever shelves you can screw together will NOT hold (learned from experience... )

 

I wouldn't think that a bookshelf is wide enough or strong enough for all that weight. Magazines also have a soft back so I thought that as you remove a magazine they would all slide and make a mess. You know what I am talking about.

 

*sigh* I knew this was going to be a little bit more complicated. Seeing how this was posted in the HT RR/AX forum, we will have to solve this problem HT RR/AX style:

Give Ground Control a call and get the softest, shortest 2.5" ID ERS springs that they can can find, paired with their standard threaded sleeves+perches. Get a steel book shelf and weld the GC threaded bodies to the sides. Weld some flat metal plates to the springs. Shove your GRM collection in between the metal plates and adjust the the GC perches as your collection grows. Everytime you pull out a magazine the new GC setup will take up the slack for you! No mess! If you're a fast reader, look into getting some Koni Yellows...

 

Ha ha ha! Awesome for you dude.

 

That'd be a great idea except welding Aluminum to steel is a non-possibility.

So first, buy a few APC wings and make the shelves out of those. THEN weld the sleeves to each endplate.

 

I think SCC (or maybe it was R/C car action? shrug) had a binder with page inserts you could buy a few years back. The idea was you cut out the tech articles you wanted to save and put them in your binder. That way you have a repository of all the info you wanted to save, but without the same Nitto tire ads over and over

Doesn't seem like a bad idea, but kind of a PITA. I personally have the top 2 shelfs of my bookshelf full of magazines as well as about 6 rubbermaid containers underneath the house. I chuck a lot of them from time to time and I still have that many?!?!

 

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Ah yes, I'm sure JB weld would suffice...

 

Slacker. That'll never pass tech.

 

I too keep GRMs longer than any magazine because of the wealth of real information in them. For the mags I really want to keep at home, I go to a discount store like WalMart and get the hard plastic magazine verticle organizers that help them stand upright and keep them in about a four inch tight stack. Now they are much more managable than laying them in horizontal stacks or standing on end all jammed together with no external support. In these organizers, they can be stacked in lots of ways more like bricks than like loose magazines.

 

A lot of newspapers, magazines are keeping archival copies online.

The only problem with many of them is you need a current account to get at the articles -- which means a current subscription. I'll prolly always have a GRM sub, but many of the others like SSC and Honda Tech, I'll let expire as I tire of their content, etc.

Having older articles online creates an ongoing advertising revenue stream for the magainzes companies as well.

I toss my old mags (most of 'em, I save a few of the very best) and hope that technology will solve the problem in the not too distant future.

 

I had the same dilemma recently. I don't need the whole magazine just some articles, sometimes it's just a pic I want. I started cutting out just the pages I want and chucking the rest. The articles I put in clear binders leaflets and put in a binder. If it is just a pic I scan it. After so many I burn them to a disc. I already have a ton of magazine holders and I am getting sick of them. I don't want my house to end up like my grandparents house.

 

ok i had this same problem like 5 years ago and i started by puttin the old ones in my garage for a couple months. then when you forget aboutem and just sittin in your garage its like finding a box full of magazines you dont remember. seems to work for me pretty good


Modified by dirtydreds at 9:34 PM 10/10/2004

 

you can donate them to me

 

few years ago i took my dozen of car magzines and coverd my room and garage with them(on the wall!)

 

I just memorize everything in them and then send them off to be recycled.

 

Basically what James A said, except I wouldn't spring for the clear sheets, just punch holes and be careful.

 

Get a bunch of those plastic magazine holder thingys--they hold 1 year's worth of magazines and you can stock them on a bookshelf like a regular book. They're cheap, too.

I'm vague on the description and I couldn't find a link in the Ikea online catalog. I got a bunch from Ikea for like a buck each. Very handy.

 

you guys are way over-thinking this

 

magazine storage box. stackable, heavy-duty, easy to move/lift, cheap.

http://www.bcwsupplies.com/cgi...E=137

 

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Ikea has some fancy ones that even my wife doesn't mind looking at. I probably have 40+ on the shelves of my office for all the magazines I accumulate. Makes me look much less like the pack-rat I really am.


Thawley

 

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Yeah, if anyone has some older GRM's they don't want, I would love to have them. I just subscribed this summer but I know there is a wealth of good info in the older issues.

 

new idea: scan them all. there are services that offer high speed scanning. you could cut the bindings off, and send them out to be scanned. current speed for color is about 80pages/min. i'd imagine that your whole collection would fit on a couple CDs. not sure if thats the kind of answer you were looking for though....
you can also find used high speed scanners on ebay for about $500 if you don't care about color.