anyone have a good suggestion how to dispose of CL magazines? hate to just discard them if someone would like to use them. library donation? the missus says we have to get rid of some stuff!
thanks, …scot…
It’s a problem! I have them going back to early 1965. But what library would be interested in that? (Needless to say, they’re not in mint condition.)
My town’s library is highly regarded and yet it focuses on obtaining an e-book if there is not a solid demand for a physical book. It doesn’t even want fairly current physical periodicals if the potential audience is small to nonexistent.
Libraries occasionally have book fairs to raise money. They ask people to donate books for them to sell. You might try one of those. I suggest bundling up the CL issues in packages of 12 organized by year. If that fails you can try a Salvation Army Thrift Store. I donated about 30 years worth of CL issues to them.
I think it will be difficult to find anyone willing to take the magazines, either to put them in their collection or to sell them at a book sale.
Magazines that aren’t ‘collectible’ just don’t sell well, and libraries don’t want to warehouse more paper that people won’t use.
I’d suggest recycling them, but even that’s getting hard these days.
That’s what I did with a nearly complete run of CL, CR and CL&R dating from 1962. I got rid of them after downloading all of the e-copies from US Chess. Kept a bound volume from 1972 since it covered Fischer’s championship and may have value.
I’ve just started playing, well when the pandemic started. I would be interested in old issues of the magazines, whether for adults or kids. If someone wants to send me theirs, I’ll pay postage. I figure the quizes, columns and games will be helpful. Thanks.
And for those of you who have these collections of old mags hanging around, I’ll be other folks just learning in your local chess clubs would like to get them. Study materials are expensive.
Unless you wish to have paper copies, you can download all issues of Chess Life and Chess Review from this address.
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Unless you wish to have paper copies, you can download all issues of Chess Life and Chess Review from this address.
Ok, so now I am embarrassed. I should have known. Thank you.
No need to feel embarrassed! The USChess website contains lots of information.
I put stacks on the TD table at some tournaments with a sign saying they are free. Usually players take them all.
Bill Goichberg