I know this is going to sound time consuming and believe me, it is! But it helped me tremendously! In each quilt book I found there were only a small handful of quilts that I actually liked. I cut out only those, put each one in clear plastic three ring binder style page protectors. The magazines and books were then donated to the library, etc. I have scaled down all those books to only two 3" wide 3-ring binders that take up minimal space on my shelving.