Clearing out some back issues, Brick magazine holds a "buck a copy" online garage sale

Anyone who admires Brick magazine knows that being able to buy an issue for a buck is a heckuva deal. But that's what you can do during the online "garage sale" of the magazine's more plentiful back issues. For the month of August, Brick 71, 75, 76, 78, 79 and 81 can be bought for $1 plus another dollar in shipping. (If you're in Toronto, you can pick them up and save the mailing costs.) 

Every one of these issues is a knockout, timeless Brick. You’ll find writing by Dionne Brand, Geoff Dyer, Sheila Heti, W. S. Merwin, Robert Hass, John Berger, Lisa Moore, A. L. Kennedy, and many more, as well as conversations with the likes of Charles Bukowski, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson. So snap up your copies while the sale lasts—and spread the word to fellow Brick-lovers.

Accumulation blues: what to do with back issues of magazines

What, pray tell, do you do with all those magazines that build up around your house (presuming that you are, like me, omnivorous and promiscuous in acquiring them)? At a certain point, the tottering pile beside the bed, beside the chair in the living room, the jammed shelf or rack, needs to be dealt with.

And it's not as if you're no longer interested, but that even with the best will in the world, you will never again crack one of those titles; there are so many new ones following you home and building up in your office. So, what to do?

At one stage in my life, I'm ashamed to say, I had a bed propped up on pillars of back issues of Harper's. At another stage, I paid parcel postage to send accumulated magazines across the Atlantic (I know, I know).

Now, the best we can do is give the surplus to the local library to sell as its own in its annual book sale, or to a school to chop up for art class, or inter them in the blue box (to wind up who knows where?) Are there any other, better ideas for what to do with magazines that are surplus to requirements? And don't suggest not buying or subscribing to them -- we're looking for realistic strategies, here.