I probably have around 10 years of them. Some have various post its onsome article. But when it comes time to build, I have no idea what isin the mags.do you keep them for any length of time and if so how do you keep arecord of what is in which mag so you could find it again.I'm thinking of just hauling the whole stash to the next city librarybook sale and let them go to some other overwhelmed modeler as itappears they are not much of an asset to me anymore, other than to killa few hours of reading on the train...Craig

I have books and magazines dating from the 1950's onward. I now keep simple databases of the contents on the computer as I, too, have long forgotten what is in them. Unfortunately, I've only managed to index five or six magazines so far and hardly any books. The mags are the main problem.The problem with the indexing is that it takes a fair amount of time to do it and the accumulation of material over the decades means that I may never manage to do it all. An earlier index, handwritten before I had a computer, covered only military subjects and occupies eight ring binders.I sympathise with your impulse to ditch the lot. I sometimes think that much of my reference material must now have been left behind by later research and the Internet and might as well be ditched. I still can't bear to part with it!Gordon McLaughlin

Old FSM mags, who keeps them?

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Bruce Apple 20 years ago

I agree!! I'm going to start with the mags I have not put into those nice FSM binders.......YET. For that idea, you are hereby awarded the cross exacto knives with masking tape clusters. A likeness of which may or may not be posted on alt.binaries.WTFisDis.yikes BA

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guardian6 20 years ago

What people need to do is share their indices. That way a master database of many, many different articles could be generated, and people would be able to track down obscure references that they might not know about. Let's say you wanted to know everything about the Fairleigh Fruitbat - across a reasonably large group of people you could be pretty sure that they would have catalogued most of the existing references.

John Hairell ( snipped-for-privacy@yhoo.com)

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Mad-modeller 20 years ago

Reading this and Tom's answer above I'd say he's closer than anyone else here to that standard already. My own would not be so complete as I skipped things in which I have no interest.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Peter W. 20 years ago

Why thank you Bruce!

This is almost as good as being Knighted with an X-Acto knife! I'm honored!

:-) Peteski

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