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I have a box of commodore magazines from ~1985 that I'm hanging on to because throwing them out seems wrong. My wife disagrees. Is she right?
by mkoryak 3y ago
I have a box of commodore magazines from ~1985 that I'm hanging on to because throwing them out seems wrong.
My wife disagrees.
Is she right?
- indus 3y agoI have a whole garage shelf filled with National Geographic magazine since 2013—-after I moved to the United States. Reading natgeo was a dream—-I bought used copies roadside in the bylanes of Kolkata. Once in a while my SO questions the same. I change the topic and continue to cherish the collection.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoCheck if they're on the Internet Archive. If yes, toss them. If no, upload them then toss them. Eventually you have your magazines and a happy wife.
- mkoryak 3y agoInternet archive might not be the best choice given their legal troubles.
- pessimizer 3y agoYou can download them.
- KerrAvon 3y agoI know it’s a lot of trouble, but if you put them on your local Craigslist or freecycle type thing, someone is likely to want them.
- corysama 3y agohttps://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-internet-archive/ https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat... Great for old books that you don’t want taking up space. But, don’t want to lose completely either.
- jetrink 3y agoSomething to consider is if you might have children and grandchildren who will stumble on them someday. One of my favorite things to do when I visited my grandparents was to go down into their basement and flip through their collections of Life, Popular Mechanics and National Geographic. It gave me a window into life in the decades before I was born in a way that history classes never could. As much as I love the Internet Archive, I would not have found clicking through a digital magazine nearly as absorbing.
- dpb001 3y agoI have had similar thoughts, but I suspect this sort of accidental discovery will be less interesting to future generations because of the competing volume of online content. I remember stumbling across a supply of second hand amateur radio magazines (QST and 73) as an 11 year old in the mid-60’s that started me down the tech path. These days I would probably be in front of some sort of screen instead of poking around in my grandparent’s basement or a used bookstore.
- cgh 3y agoI had a reasonable collection of Transactor magazine from the ‘80s. They were formative to my childhood and my love of writing software for my C64. But I had to let them go. I found a good and appreciative home for them and freed up some space. And they are freely available online.
- self_awareness 3y agoI bet she has some things which you would happily throw out?
- kleiba 3y agoI'd rather separate from the wife than my classic magazine collection.
- qingcharles 3y agoI'm accepting magazine donations for my encyclopedia. If they're something that isn't already available in electronic format then I will scan and upload them. It's not technically live yet, but there's a couple of test pages up: https://en.magazedia.wiki/cinefex-no-138 https://en.magazedia.wiki/cinefex-no-138 https://en.magazedia.wiki/gq-style-usa-summer-2017 https://en.magazedia.wiki/gq-style-usa-summer-2017 I have something in the order of probably 2 million magazines in various electronic formats that I am working up organizing and uploading.
- fractallyte 3y agoYour wife should learn to appreciate knowledge and skills outside of her "comfort zone". Her PoV is not the only valid one.