I have a whole shelf full of banker boxes of old woodworking magazines (I cannot bear to throw them away).   When I started (pre-internet days), I learned a lot from them.

Now, I subscribe to very few.   But I still read most of them.   My local library has a lot of them on e-readers that I can read online at my leisure.  As an Ohio resident, I have patron IDs at Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland libraries and can get current or back e-reader issues on demand.  My local (Cincinnati) library circulates their recent issues, back a few years, and I can put a reserve on them and pick them up at my local branch if I want the hardcopy for any reason.

 

This morning, I pulled off the pages for the Shaker Berry Box from an issue of FWW a year ago.

So what's you point?

If you want to read the magazines but don't want to subscribe, there are other free options.

 

verbum sapienti sat est

And here I thought you were giving away your old magazines! But seriously, I have everything from the last 35-40 years, and if anyone is interested.....

 

Nil carborundum illegitimus

 

Edited December 19, 20205 yr by HARO50

 

Gave away about 35-40 years accumulation of FWW, Wood, and Woodsmith, when we first began contemplating a move. In the batch was issue one of FWW. The guy who took them said his wife would likely kill him for bringing them home. My wife was ecstatic when they left.

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Interesting. I also have quite (or used to have) a stack of mostly Wood and Woodsmith, a few issues of others thrown in. We've moved twice in the last 10 years and it was a PITA to move them both times. So over the last month, all the Wood (pretty much a complete set) got taken to the recycle center and dumped. I'm still holding onto the Woodsmith, but they are scheduled to go. I kept them for the project plans, but as you said...there are other ways to get access to them.

A few years ago, I succumbed to their offer of several years of past issues of Woodsmith on a CD. Since the move, I can't find it, though.

I've got few, wood , woodsmith, and shopsmith all on cd. Thanks for reminding me!!!