OT: New Scientist back issues

Sorry Jon I can't help you out,but you will be pleased to know you are not
the only one with a problem.You are right it doesn't seem right to bin them
but no one else seems to want them .I had to throw out about ten years worth
!

Sam Salt

Jon Senior said:

As a part of my moving flat (And general sort out of life that it
entails) I'm intending to get rid of a collection of New Scientist
back issues. They run for around 3 years from 1997 (IIRC) and include
some of the index files. They are free to a good home (Ideally
Edinburgh / surrounds or postage to anywhere else). I could just skip
them, but that feels wrong.

Anyone interested, drop me an email (Demung address before sending!).

Jon

Jon Senior said:

As a part of my moving flat (And general sort out of life that it
entails) I'm intending to get rid of a collection of New Scientist back
issues. They run for around 3 years from 1997 (IIRC) and include some of
the index files. They are free to a good home (Ideally Edinburgh /
surrounds or postage to anywhere else). I could just skip them, but that
feels wrong.

Anyone interested, drop me an email (Demung address before sending!).

Jon

Don't throw out my map Jon.

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As a part of my moving flat (And general sort out of life that it entails)
I'm intending to get rid of a collection of New Scientist back issues.
They run for around 3 years from 1997 (IIRC) and include some of the index
files. They are free to a good home (Ideally Edinburgh / surrounds or
postage to anywhere else). I could just skip them, but that feels wrong.

Anyone interested, drop me an email (Demung address before sending!).

Jon

I donated my first 20 years worth 1963-1984 to the Wellcome Foundation for
the Study of the History of Medicine who wanted them for recent references
to cancer. They sent a van to Edinburgh to collect them. Luckily in the
last three years the quality of New Scientist has been so poor and "gee
whizz science" that I have stopped buying it. In the interim I managed to
gird up courage to just throw them away, quarterly.

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I donated my first 20 years worth 1963-1984 to the Wellcome Foundation for
the Study of the History of Medicine who wanted them for recent references
to cancer. They sent a van to Edinburgh to collect them.

I give boxes of old magazines (too random and incomplete ever to be
dignified with the term 'collection'😉 to hospitals, hospices, charity
shops - phoning first to be sure they actually want them.

Haven't yet felt able to part with my Grantas, though. I've read all the
earlier issues about three times.

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I give boxes of old magazines (too random and incomplete ever to be
dignified with the term 'collection'😉 to hospitals, hospices, charity
shops - phoning first to be sure they actually want them.

Quoted message said:

Haven't yet felt able to part with my Grantas, though. I've read all the
earlier issues about three times.

I asked a friend. He gives his New Scientist to his GP's waiting room
and reports they disappear from there rapidly...

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Edgware.

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congokid <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

I give boxes of old magazines (too random and incomplete ever to be
dignified with the term 'collection'😉 to hospitals, hospices, charity
shops - phoning first to be sure they actually want them.

Quoted message said:

Haven't yet felt able to part with my Grantas, though. I've read all
the earlier issues about three times.

I asked a friend. He gives his New Scientist to his GP's waiting room
and reports they disappear from there rapidly...

FWIW, I've given various mags away to libraries. Most aren't interested
due to space reasons on large collections, but some of the smaller
branches have a 'magazine exchange' rack at the entrance where people can
give away / take away back issues of magazines. Do it a dozen or so at a
time. I guess that if anyone ever reads them again, it has been a
worthwhile exercise. Probably not appropriate for Viz / lads / pr0n
mags...

Alternative 1: common rooms, employee lounges, community centres, & as
suggested, GP surgeries.

Alternative 2: eBay. Make sure you weigh 'em for the postage cost before
listing them, tho.

Alternative 3: I got rid of loads of old music mags (Vox, Select, etc) a
few years back & found a suggestion somewhere online - use them as
rock'n'roll wrapping paper. Great idea, which I used that Xmas.

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Chris Bardell
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"Ich bin ein Auslander"

Chris Bardell said:

Alternative 1: common rooms, employee lounges, community centres, & as
suggested, GP surgeries.

Which is the reason why whenever I'm in a waiting room all the mags are
years out of date is it?

Tony

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Chris Bardell said:

Alternative 1: common rooms, employee lounges, community centres, &
as suggested, GP surgeries.

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Which is the reason why whenever I'm in a waiting room all the mags are
years out of date is it?

Correct. Why not redress the balance and leave behind an armful of this
week's mags?

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Luckily in the
last three years the quality of New Scientist has been so poor and "gee
whizz science" that I have stopped buying it.

I used to subscribe to it a few years back, but I only buy it occasionally
now. In fact, there's one that's been sitting on my desk in front of me for
a couple of weeks that I've only read the back page of. One advantage to
the edition that is published in Australia is that it has next to no
advertising in it compared to the UK edition. The first time I picked it up
I was struck by how light it was. Mind you, it would mean that we wouldn't
have been able to play the "spot the job ad with the strangest job title"
game we played at school. Hmmm... does that make me sound a bit sad and
geeky? Probably. Pretty fair assessment of what I was like at school
though.

Graeme

Graeme said:

I used to subscribe to it a few years back, but I only buy it occasionally
now. In fact, there's one that's been sitting on my desk in front of me for
a couple of weeks that I've only read the back page of. One advantage to
the edition that is published in Australia is that it has next to no
advertising in it compared to the UK edition. The first time I picked it up
I was struck by how light it was. Mind you, it would mean that we wouldn't
have been able to play the "spot the job ad with the strangest job title"
game we played at school. Hmmm... does that make me sound a bit sad and
geeky? Probably. Pretty fair assessment of what I was like at school
though.

Although not in NS, the best job title I ever encountered was something
like "Java Technology Evangelist".

"You now know Java. Go forth. Spread the word my son."

Jon