G'dday.

I know the website actively discourages us from setting free magazines, on 
the basis that they're only just (if that) books, and they're too softbound 
to withstand too much travel, but  I'm really considering releasing one.

It's A4 size, and bound with a hard cardboard cover, making it much like a 
large paperback in durability. Does that make it sound more acceptable for 
release?

Its interest is what makes me want to release it - I haven't actually read 
it, but I've held onto it for the seven or eight years I've had it for 
several reasons.

It's a 1978 (yes, you heard me right!) edition of the "Scientific American", 
which has great credibility where I am, and on a science list where I spend 
a lot of cybertime. Being a 1978 edition, it has ties with me, because even 
though I only got it a few years back (off a doctor's waiting table), 1978 
was the first uyear that I really had masses of fun, it was my first year in 
university, it was the year I first contracted the herpes simplex virus, it 
was the year I moved out of my parents' place, dadadada. I liked that year 
for all kinds of reasons.

The science in it, which was cutting-edge and controversial at the time, has 
either become boring-establishment, or discredited in the decades since, 
which makes for interesting reading if you have some layman's idea of where 
science is at the moment. And hte photography! Well, what can I say? When I 
was a teenager in 1978, contemporary magazine photography looked perfectly 
ordinary. Now it looks dated and revolting.

It's a great magazine, and it's about time other people enjoyed it again.

What do you think - should I release it? And maybe ironically release it 
exactly where I found it?

Nisaba

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