Okay, I've been through Organization 101 where they recommend you simply cut out the articles you're interested in and store those. But, I really enjoy keeping my old magazines around.
With them taking up so much room, how/where do you store them? They simply take up a lot of space. Too bad they, SR and Launch, weren't simply on CD for long-term storage.
Yeah I don't get it either... I too keep all my old magazines (they're taking over the 'office'-- I still have every single American Spacemodelling issue from my high school days and they're a GOLD MINE of good info!)
There is a terrific magazine I get (non-rocketry related, it's about agriculture and shop/home topics
www.farmshow.com) that's based on edited contributions, mostly by the public, and includes a 'best and worst buys' section that covers just about everything and anything. Think of it like if EMRR was a monthly magazine. NO paid advertising is accepted at all; that way they have the freedom to call it like they see it, good or bad, without fallout from advertisers. Since that leaves paid subscriptions as the only source of income, the magazine is printed on newsprint, which of course is a pretty crappy medium, but the magazine is well worth it because of it's slant-free reporting, which is VIRTUALLY NONEXISTANT in the ag trade papers...
OK, back on topic... as I said, it's printed on newsprint which doesn't store well... they've computerized their entire print run of the magazine (about 20 years or so now) and put it on an indexed searchable CD-ROM... You can go to the index and look up all the stories on a particular cross-referenced topic, and 'link' directly to them, or search for related stories on various topics.... and of course if you want to you can go through and read each and every magazine cover to cover right on the computer.
SO WHY OH WHY DOESN'T NAR OFFER A SIMILAR CD-ROM WITH ALL THE BACK ISSUES OF THEIR MAGAZINE(S), EVEN IF THEY AREN'T INDEXED AND SEARCHABLE!!! NAR really needs to do a CD-ROM like this-- they could contact the company that did the FARMSHOW CD-ROM and have it done. The FARMSHOW one is pretty cheap, but I could understand NAR charging more for theirs, as it'd be a money maker for the organization... and yes it would be a big undertaking but most things worth doing ARE...
Til then I guess it'll be more underbed tubs and cardboard magazine boxes up on the shelf... OL JR