someone suggested that to me and I still haven't got round to doing it. But I will.

I donated the first year's issues to our vet. At the time I was making a lot of visits with the cat we had at the time. Between making the donation and my return, which was probably only a week or so later, the whole lot had disappeared leaving once again ancient copies of Readers Digest and Good Housekeeping as the only reading matter.

...we're not up against a deadline 'cos we're moving, but loft space (and structural damage) are driving me towards the same sorry dilemma.

If anyone wants huuuuuge piles of back issues of Q (issue 1 until about 3 years back), Select (all of 'em), Vox (the lot), Uncut (several years' worth) and of course, the mighty Word, AND can come and pick them up from chez Fox, they all need a new caring home where they will be read, cherished and stored on a shelf until it's time to move on again.

Take 'em off my hands or the recycling bin gets 'em.

I'll take 'em off your hands. Seriously. I never kept the issues I bought until I started working at the magazine, and now I'd love a complete archive.

magazines should scan their back issues and release them to the public on CD. I know I'd happily pay a tenner for a year's magazines I'd already bought in a digital format.

I'd be very happy to relieve you of some back issues, as i've only been 'with' the word for about a year. It'd be interesting to see how it's developed over the years.

Doctor's/dentist's surgeries and hospital out patients waiting areas. If I see one more dog eared copy of OK, Hello or Country Life, I shall go mad

Uncut, Mojo are stored in various places around the house. Although that day has not yet come, I will be wanting to get rid of all these mags myself at some point. So its good to know that when that day does come there will be possibly a good home waiting somewhere.

Did go into an Oxfam in Nottingham recently that had a sizeable stash of Mojo mags for sale, so possible place to get rid there

It might be worth a few bob when Hepworth and Ellen get knighted!

I have too much stuff in my life already without keeping magazines. Got into the habit of giving Word and my Private Eyes to Mrs. Beach who deposits them in her waiting room at a nearby hopsital.
Only problem this creates is that a couple of junior doctors now seem to spend a lot of their time hanging around outside her office reading.

I read my first copy of Word in a hospital waiting room about 3 years ago. I'd suggest spreading the word by donating to your local doctor/dentist.

I subsequently discovered that my new dentist has The Word in his waiting room, so I get to re-read back issues when I visit him. One-up from the old guy who only had ancient issues of "Punch" which I recall reading as a child when I visited the dentist... for me "Punch" will always conjure up the smell of that stuff you swill your mouth out with at the end.

a copy of the mighty Kate Bush issue in a waiting room. Amazing how quickly it was picked up, then put down in favour of TV Break, or whatever.

We should all make sure that nice Mr Lewry has a good stock of back issues. That way we know who to pester when some tricky debate is raging about an old topic from way back when.

He's Mistra Know-it-all.

I merrily threw out a few years worth of Sounds from the mid-80s, and assumed recently that I'd be able to pick up job lots of them for buttons. Not a bit of it - £8 per issue!

I've been wrestling with this knotty one for many years and with a house move in the pipeline I assumed that you were my wife writing under a pseudonym.

My loft has about 200 issues of Empire from issue 1 onwards, assorted Q, and other bits and bobs I just can't quite bring myself to throw out. My complete collection of Word mags (sans the Bob Dylan one which resides with a neighbour) are actually all within easy reach as I too decided I would have a good old flick through them. . . .it hasn't happened for me either.

Ebay used to be a good place to sell these but when Royal Mail buggered about with postal charges it killed off the volume selling as it costs about 2 or 3 quid to post each one. However, to echo douglas_green I was surprised how well I did with some magazines - early Hotdog issues were being bought for around a tenner. Sight and Sound however just wouldn't sell.

I wonder if there is an opportunity for Word to have section on the site for people to list back issues they want/want rid of?

Do you remember when Word offered a digitised copy of the magazine to subscribers - what happened to that venture?

Could be great for sales,swaps and wants.

And it would then be a criminal offence to start a blog to advertise a bloody U2 mp3 on sale at bloody Tesco.

All back issues should self destruct 30 seconds after you've finished reading them*

*Probably not a good idea to finish reading that long piece on why the music business is going tits up as you've read everything else - in bed.
Unless you've a fire extinguisher handy.

Our attic groans with sets of magazines that I'm starting to realise I'll never read again. There's the first 170 or so of Q, Mojo until about a year back and Empire until early 2008. There's a couple missing from about 5 years back, but otherwise they are complete - all the supplements, but no CDs, I'm afraid.

I'll keep a small selection of things that are never likely to get digitized that remind me of innocent times- Zigzag, Hot Wacks, Rave, Fat Angel etc etc.

To think that I paid to have a massive magazine collection shipped to the US and back in the 1980's (Face, Arena now recycled etc - really weighty stuff that added £100s to the cost!).

These mags are in sunny Wandsworth, South London and yours if you want them. They must be collected- I'll give a hand out to the car, but I'm not up for doing all the work! If you are in London and have no transport, we can probably do a deal for petrol money to help you get them home.

..second hand bookstore willingly takes old mags and flogs them for 50 cents/ 1 euro. I drop stuff off there regularly, although I , invariably , come out with a few for myself. Recently picked up 20 issues if the New Yorker for 10euros.

Am leaving the country soon and can't justify the cost of shipping all my Words (from issue 1) much as I'd like to. I'm in Dalston, London N16 if anyone would like to come pick them up? No hurry - you've got until September!

It's only a magazine you know, not the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I recently sold a stack of old Mojos (amongst other things) at a car boot sale, in the expectation that they'd probably end up on ebay. I just couldn't face the mechanics of ebaying them myself, which at one time would have been the logical route, and couldn't think of anyone I knew who'd have them without risk of provoking thermonuclear domestic fallout. At least they should find new homes.

On the evidence of that, it'll be about 10-15 years before I'll even think of culling the Word archive, not that it goes back as far as I'd like.

The archive still includes some punk-era 70s Zigzags, a huge pile of old 70s NMEs languishing in a dark place, French car magazines & others, the vinyl (which does get played) and a small branch-library's worth of books. I'm still chickening-out of a read and not-yet-read storage arrangement for these....

I still have the first 120 or so MOJOs, but like most people, couldn't bear to part with them and missed the boat selling the early ones for big money. I saw one issue from the first 10 go for £70 on eBay... now instead of people trying to complete their collections, you can't give them away.

I did sell some early Uncuts for decent money, before the postage changed.

As for Word, I give the odd copy away, otherwise they go in the bin after a few months in the magazine rack.

Does your area have a FreeCycle group?
I got rid of a load of When Saturday Comes through it. On the other hand copies of Vox remained unwanted and got taken to the dump.