I donate only magazines that have all the pages intact. If I have removed one or more pages for patterns, I recycle those. Most people who buy an old magazine, even at a garage sale, assume it is the whole magazine. It is very disappointing to find that the recipe or pattern that interested you most is missing.
If you're placing magazines for free in a senior center of doctor's office, then it's not a problem if a page or two is missing. I would just encourage people NOT to donate these to resale organizations such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, or Friends of the Library unless you want to clearly mark on the front cover that one or more pages are missing. And, if you do that, most people will not want to buy the magazine in that condition.
Last edited by Prism99; 09-04-2014 at 01:37 PM.