magazine donations?

[kitkatbar]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Lassiter

Those are interesting ideas, but I don't want to LOOK for art teachers and social workers. It would be wonderful if there were a place I could drop them off where these people could come sort through them and pick them up.

Where do you think this mythical place is that welcomes residents to come from all over central Texas and dump their unwanted books, magazines and newspapers in a giant trash heap so that art teachers, social workers and others can come paw through them, take what they want, and leave the rest behind in a disorganized mess for some mythical person to clean up and dispose of?

Even my local library, which accepts donations of some books, is quite picky about what they will and will not accept. They want recently released popular fiction titles in very good condition, not me showing up with a box of old dust bunny collectors I'm trying to get rid of after cleaning my house.

I would suggest taking advantage of the buy nothing group and putting the stuff out on your porch. If you aren't comfortable doing that, just recycle them.

[Dwayne Lassiter]

Again, I don't want them to find me. So that won't work. You really want a bunch of strangers to continually converge on you to sift through your magazines? If I have a piece of furniture I want to give away, I'd be willing to do that. Once it's gone, it's gone. But this is a continuous stream of donations. I want them to find my pile of magazines. I want to drop off my magazines and be entirely out of the loop. It's kind of remarkable that there isn't some organization that offers this service say, to art teachers and social workers.

[ashbeeigh]

Okay.

[Dwayne Lassiter]

"Where do you think this mythical place is that welcomes residents to come from all over central Texas and dump their unwanted books, magazines and newspaper"


It's called the Austin Public Library. Pre-pandemic. No myth. No, I didn't say unwanted newspapers or books. I said used magazines. When I saw the piles there in previous years, they were usually pretty good stuff, so they probably trash the junk. Pretty obviously, I now recycle them. Was that not clear?

[Dwayne Lassiter]

OK, I have an answer. I got in touch with APL, and said that it would sure be nice to have their magazine sharing again. They wrote me a nice response, and said that while it was stopped during the worst of the pandemic, it is now being restarted. They said that magazine sharing is now in effect at Little Walnut Creek, Twin Oaks, Windsor Park, and Yarborough branches (which don't include the branch I'm closest to, which was why I wasn't aware of them) and more branches will be added. But it's up to the discretion of the local branch managers.

So it's happening, sort of, and it's going to happen a lot more. Case closed.

[guac]

Depending on what sort of magazines they are, Austin Creative Reuse may take them. Maybe call and ask, if you still have them.