When I buy a magazine I take out the patterns that I want to keep and put them in plastic page protectors. Then I put them in notebooks.I keep the applique ones in separate notebooks. The patterns I print from the computer I also put into the notebooks.That makes it easier to find the quilt pattern you want to make if you don't have a big stack of magazines to go through. I have a 4ft x 4ft bookcase with 4 shelves. the bottom 2 shelves have quilting books and the top 2 shelves has pattern notebooks.