Attack of the Magazine Box Files

[major_clanger]

I don't know about the paperless office, but I certainly don't have the paperless study.

With all the stuff going on in our lives lately, we've been a bit slack on tidying up. This evening I gathered up all the magazines and loose paperwork lying around the house and sorted it into stuff to file and stuff to bin. In the course of this I realised that we either subscribe to or buy reasonably regularly:

• New Scientist


• Physics World


• Wired


• Astronomy Now


• Sky and Telescope


• Institution of Electrical Engineers Review


• IEE Management Journal


• Spaceflight


• Journal of the British Astronomical Association


• Interzone


• SFX


• Matrix, Vector and Focus


• Spectrum SF

This is why we move from house to house weighed down by box upon box of yellowing paperwork - note that I haven't even mentioned fanzines or APAs in my list. I've decided it's time to get tough; from now on, I keep a maximum of a year's back issues of the monthly magazines unless they're ones I specifically want to hang on to. (Which are the SF ones, JBAA and Spaceflight). Wired gets six months, it's too bloody thick.

(Lest anyone worry about recycling, New Scientist already goes to Book Aid, a charity who take recent back issues of books and journals of educational value - they may well be getting the overflow of the other titles as well soon.)

MC

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Do you have detrails of book aid? They might be useful for us at some point too...

Dave

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Outting yourself, eh? :-)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

http://www.bookaid.org

I first heard about them in the New Scientist letters page as an alternative to recycling into pulp, they accept runs of NS up to 2 years old and send them to developing countries. They also accept fairly recent textbooks (all subjects, not just science/tech) and general fiction suitable for children and adults learning English. One day we must go through our bookshelves and make up a box or two of anything sufficiently useful!

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

You've not been watching Life Laundry, have you?

But then, she only allows One Month for Magazines (shows what trashy mags they're dealing with), and puts perfectly useful stuff into The Crusher!!!