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Many are the view perspective, here is one more ( or less, grin ). The majority here are fortunate, to have a past of printed material and a future of electronic abstraction of printed reading, images et al. Not lost upon the thought process here, that many printed books, are going to the scrap bin, given little value to the modern person, drenched in electronic communications.

Bought in one form or another the complete Oxford Press Dictionary ( 20 Volume public library fare ). See Websters going for bargain prices, picked for a princely $25 the complete works of Oscar Wilde 3" thick tome, delivery included. Much to be said for modern thinking, should you be a buyer of notable literature in printed form. Somewhat aggrieved in my conscious of the fallen trees, yet a tree lives in a book, perverse a comment as that remains. The printed words carried by a tree, to my hands and mind, there is comfort, in in the outwardly conflicted modern world, begs the question as to why the modern world is so conflicted? Or is it, visiting the book shelf will provide many less than obvious understandings.

Repairing electronics here, across my bench is a larger ex TV screen, used to display pdf schematics, a discarded ex government Dell computer driving it, being a veteran of paper schematics that were in the B0 paper size format, my brain now has to "segment" a schematic, as panning the pdf requires new skills, most of all, recall retention of what particular signal i was chasing, all the while my mouse or trackball hand is engaged in the new, ie now have hand to eye co-ordination to contend with when viewing a schematic diagram....

Then of course the most delectable facet of all this, what are you doing as of right now, reading this ramble, not printed on paper that is for sure...a grin. Books and screens are tools, perception is reality. j
 
How long can we justify cutting down carbon storing trees to make paper? Sure much of the paper used to print books, not newspapers, is of high rag content, but there still is some wood pulp there. Ditto with the thick glossy paper used in high quality magazines, still the worst offenders are the women’s fashion magazines like Elle or Vogue!
 
Alzero said:
How long can we justify cutting down carbon storing trees to make paper? Sure much of the paper used to print books, not newspapers, is of high rag content, but there still is some wood pulp there. Ditto with the thick glossy paper used in high quality magazines, still the worst offenders are the women’s fashion magazines like Elle or Vogue!
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Also add in the "recycle paper", the many books that sit on a shelf, from 100's of years past, what do you do, look at the shelves and never read them, is the case here, to my shame and reality, desecrate a book or leave it unread until it rots. Have no answer to that, others may. j.
 
I am a serial re-reader. I have books that I have read more than fifty times.
Currently re-reading Louis de Bernières' Latin American trilogy for, probably, the fourteenth or fifteenth time.
I own in excess of a thousand books, many are frequently read First Editions.
 
Re cycled my complete vinyl collection not so long ago by selling them all off to a local record shop ( yes , one still exists ) .......took a dozen or so 12" / 7" `s in at a time over a period of about two years ...... and ended up with £1800 in my back pocket .......just play stuff on YouTube now , everything`s there .........

Which completely contradicts what I`ve been saying about keeping printed matter , and not using plastic screens instead ....... but from a reference point of view there`s more info contained in a magazine than there is on a vinyl record ......

Nowadays I probably re cycle 40 - 50 % of the magazines I receive , unless there`s a particular article I want to keep ........ and then find I`ve got rid of something I should have kept .......

BTW ..... Which uses up more resource .......... Reading a magazine on re cycled paper ....... Or constantly running and recharging a PC / Phone ..? .....
 
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I'm a mixed bag:
Gave all of my CDs to the local charity shop recently (boxes and boxes full), but can't seem to dispose of books and magazines, which litter the house and storage areas.
 
sfcpiet said:
It's always going to be there, somewhere... the problem is finding it again. If it's truely lost, the internet is falling apart!

I prefer pulling out a bound year of Classic Bike for reference, but even then, it's often difficult/time consuming finding a particular article. Print mags mostly refrain from issuing an index at the end of the year. Nice for browsing, though.

piet
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Last time I moved house I had to get rid of 25 years of Motor Klassik. Still have almost 40 year worth of Markt, and tons of Motorrad Classic and Claasic Bike and Oldtimer Praxis and Classic& Sportscar and Classic Car and Ruoteclassiche and whatnot. It's over 100feet of mags which I never look at and which have suffered slightly from dampness and they're all getting binned the next time I reorganize my garage. I wish they were all available digitally. My 5c worth. Actually thousands of € worth.
 
If the magazines are of no further use , then it is a good idea to free yourself from them ..... but I`m not sure about the term " dispose " , or "bin " ....... my local council collects paper waste every two weeks for re cycling , or failing that there should be a local re cycling centre ...... the best way to rid yourselves of them responsibly ........ putting twenty or thirty out each time should help , before you know it they will all be gone .....
 
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I also had over 30 years of British bike mags.
I chucked the lot in the recycling bin when we moved just over 5 years back.
I only kept all that's Laverda related and I sometimes wonder if it's worth it, technical documents and a few curios apart.

Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
I only kept all that's Laverda related and I sometimes wonder if it's worth it, technical documents and a few curios apart.
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Similar for me but I find that when someone comes to visit who is a bike person ..... they enjoy the old magazines, even if briefly. I have maybe 50 magazines with mostly old Laverda, Guzzi and some Ducati content. I don't think I shall bin them just yet.

Come visit me!

Jim
 
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