Do you do anything with the covers?

I subscribed to the NYer for about 10 years, from about 1985-1995. I remember that I tossed out all the magazines, but before I did I tore the covers off of each one and saved them. Someday I'll have an "outbuilding" on my land that will need to be decorated with all of those covers. I know....it's not an original idea. But it's fun, just the same.

I used to save them too - wonder if I still have them around somewhere. The original idea was to somehow make them into wallpaper for one of the walls of my apartment, but I never did.

I have a box of covers somewhere too....... I'll bet a lot of people do.

I realized that I stopped saving the covers when they stopped wrapping the magazines in brown paper with the label on the outside. Now, taking off the label scars the cover, so I don't bother anymore. But in some craft and gift fairs, I've seen the covers framed as artwork - so we aren't alone in our admiration.

Ffortsa, you've been reading the New Yorker since at least the '80s. That's when I first started subscribing and about when they stopped using the paper wrapper. Then they wrapped them in plastic but they've given up both methods since then. I loved it when it came in the brown wrapper.

Ah yes. I won't reveal how much longer than that I've been reading - but I have several manila envelopes of old covers around here somewhere!