To be honest, I don't really want to know--now I buy very few quilt magazines because the ideas seem to be recycled from earlier issues. But, books take up quite a bit of shelf space, I do use them for ideas, not just patterns. Regularly, I sort and give away unused items, usually to beginning quilters. Finally gave up the first quilting book I ever bought, Trudy Hughes first book, but it went to a daughter so I could borrow it,if need be. piecefully, the old one