Found this on Craigslist

[flatbedcowboy]

This isnt my add, and I dont really want 1500 magazines laying around but maybe some of you guys in the Spokane Washington area might.

http://spokane.craigslist.org/clt/2956275578.html

you may have to copy and paste this into your web browser

Supposedly he has 1500 Model Railroader magazines some bound (27 series) and alot loose. I think when I calculated it they are like .04 cents a peice or something like that.

 

[CBCNSfan]

He'll probably have a hard time to give them away let alone sell them. I've seen a lot of sales like this on this forum and few if any were interested. The cost of shipping puts sales on the back burners out of reach.
Cheers
Willis

 

[el3637]

Magazines and VHS tapes you can't give away because the shipping will kill you. Why would anybody pay 5 bucks to ship a used VHS, when you can buy like new used DVD movies for a buck? There's a pawn shop at my exit that puts out racks and racks of $1 DVDs... the exit is on the way to a casino so I imagine they buy the DVDs for 20 cents each or something like that.

I have decades of magazines... a lot of them in storage. I do still use them, but as the quantity grew, it became less and less convenient. I've actually purchased a back issue that I *already knew I had* at a show for a quarter if it had an interesting article, just because it was easier than finding my own copy.

I've considered the MR on DVD set, but they have apparently encoded it in some proprietary format instead of something normal like PDF. Not interested in playing those kinds of games. I have virtually every issue of MR from 1969 to present, and probably 50% of 1950 to 1970 and even some from the 40s. There is something organic about looking at an old, musty magazine... black and white ads for diecast steam locos and some old bald guy working on it... who if he were alive today would be 120.... much of what I know about the history of the hobby came from these magazines which were already old when I was a kid.

Andy getting older but nowhere close to bald...

 

[OCN Guy]

I've considered the MR on DVD set, but they have apparently encoded it in some proprietary format instead of something normal like PDF.

http://cutepdf.com/
Get the free version. I use it to death.

 

[el3637]

http://cutepdf.com/
Get the free version. I use it to death.

How would this convert MR's proprietary format to PDF?

Andy

 

[OCN Guy]

while you're looking at it, choose print. the PDF filter will convert it to PDF.

 

[Locomotive man]

Thanks for that link, very interesting collection of mags for such a low price. Could possibly use some of these for inspiration for my next model train layout.