I love my quilt books and magazines, as it's so nice to sit and relax going through them to get ideas for new quilts. However, when we moved to a 2-bedroom apt. from a 3-bedroom home, I was forced to "downsize" my stash of books, and so many magazines. When I get a magazine I use Post-It notes to flag a quilt pattern I might like to make, so when deciding whether to keep a magazine or book, I would go to the flagged patterns, take another look and if I've changed my mind I gather them up and give them to my quilting buddy. When she's done looking at them she passes them on. One thing she told me that she does is to pull the pattern out of a magazine, put it in a see-through page protector and then put them into a binder. It seems to work out for both of us, and whatever book she wants, she keeps, then passes them on to another quilting buddy. Saves us all money in the end, although I have severely cut back on books and magazines since we moved. Drat. Oh well, I have enough magazines and books to last me a long time for ideas.