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Nuts & Volts Magazine Back Issues
posted Friday, 25 November 2005
I have over the years enjoyed reading Nuts & Volts magazine. This is a magazine dedicated to the electronics hobbiest. I think I had a subscription to the magazine as far back as middle school age. I have had a subscription off and on over the years and pretty consistently over the past 10 years. Due to some rearranging in the basement, I recently went through and organized my collection of back issues. I have every issue from 1996 through present and many issues from 1995, and a few from 1993 and 1994. I had the following duplicate issues: November 1996, December 1997, and November 1998. If anyone wants these issues, email me and I will list them on EBAY and send you a link to the listing. I really don't care to make any money on the listing, I just want to cover the shipping, so the starting price will be very low. I have kept these issues this many years, so I'll keep them at least 1 more year.
Nuts & Volts recently created a digital version that you can subscribe to for a little lower rate than the print edition. The digital version looks exactly the same as the print version, you can look at every page including the advertisements, and you can zoom and scroll around, and print out pages. I believe you also get access to back digital issues that you subscribed to. I really can't stand to part with back issues of such a useful magazine as Nuts & Volts, but storage space is limited, so the digital version will really be a lot easier on my basement shelf space.
It may be occuring to the non engineer reader that it is pretty excessive and strange behavior to keep 10+ years of back issues to a magazine, and that they have words for people like me, such as pack-rat. I would venture that this behavior is pretty common among engineers!
Nuts & Volts has a magazine search feature on their web site that you can use to search for topics in past issues. Without this indexing, I probably wouldn't keep the old magazines around for more than a year or two because I would never be able to find anything.
I noticed on the Nuts & Volts web site that you can purchase a CDROM containing all of the 2004 back issues for $29.95. I am considering doing this so that I can free up more shelf space, so if you want to buy my 2004 print issues, I could list those on EBAY as well (email me).
In the future, if I implement a project from the magazine, I will write about the experience in this blog. I encourage others to post their experiences with Nuts & Volts projects as well. You can attach them as comments to this entry. If the project is really interesting, I may give it a try myself and provide follow up posts.
Nuts & Volts recently created a digital version that you can subscribe to for a little lower rate than the print edition. The digital version looks exactly the same as the print version, you can look at every page including the advertisements, and you can zoom and scroll around, and print out pages. I believe you also get access to back digital issues that you subscribed to. I really can't stand to part with back issues of such a useful magazine as Nuts & Volts, but storage space is limited, so the digital version will really be a lot easier on my basement shelf space.
It may be occuring to the non engineer reader that it is pretty excessive and strange behavior to keep 10+ years of back issues to a magazine, and that they have words for people like me, such as pack-rat. I would venture that this behavior is pretty common among engineers!
Nuts & Volts has a magazine search feature on their web site that you can use to search for topics in past issues. Without this indexing, I probably wouldn't keep the old magazines around for more than a year or two because I would never be able to find anything.
I noticed on the Nuts & Volts web site that you can purchase a CDROM containing all of the 2004 back issues for $29.95. I am considering doing this so that I can free up more shelf space, so if you want to buy my 2004 print issues, I could list those on EBAY as well (email me).
In the future, if I implement a project from the magazine, I will write about the experience in this blog. I encourage others to post their experiences with Nuts & Volts projects as well. You can attach them as comments to this entry. If the project is really interesting, I may give it a try myself and provide follow up posts.
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