I usually do not leave them in the box, mostly because there isn't room.
Also, if the box ever goes missing, at least you still have the old logbook for
the box.

Just my 1 1/2 cents....

Music Woman



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--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Steve and Heidi" <
stephenholyfield@s...> wrote:
> What do you do with old log books that get full in the boxes you have
> placed? Obviously add a new book, but do you leave the first book in
> the box or pull it and safeguard it?

I would remove the (old) log entirely. I recently pulled the original log to Bird
Walk because I moved out of the area, the log was thin, and it was my first
attempt at a box and log...so it was removed and replaced with a hand-sewn
full log.

I would keep the original (full) log and also like Music Woman said- there's just
not enough room in the box for an additional log. Additionally, if you though it
might walk off then I wouldn't risk the chance of leaving it in there.

phyto
who now makes logs thinking about long term box construction - the logs are
now much thicker and all hand made...

I recently faced this issue with the cars-on-a-stick box. Since this
is a box that's disappeared twice in less than a year, I knew I'd be
taking a big risk that neither I nor anyone else would ever see the
logbook again if I kept it in the box and just added a bunch of new
pages. But that's what I did. So much of the fun of finding a box
is looking through the logbook for old friends and new stamps. Since
so much of my urban letterboxing work disappears anyway, I've
adopted, at least on my good days, a sort of zen-like attitude that
this is all transitory, and we should appreciate the moments that we
do have with letterboxes, and not assume that they will always be
there for us.

Here is an idea for old log books. I would leave a link to a webpage in the letterbox.
The webpage would contain scans of the original log book. In doing so, preserving
the history of the letterbox.




--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Steve and Heidi"
wrote:
> Here's a 10 cent question for all you boxers:
>
> What do you do with old log books that get full in the boxes you have
> placed? Obviously add a new book, but do you leave the first book in
> the box or pull it and safeguard it?
>
> Our Avery Tract Series is about 1/2 full and if this pace continues
> we will have to replace them all (like 8 books) in the spring.
> Recently our Gorton Cemetery log got full and we made a new log and
> placed it in the box with the old one.
>
> I've seen JD bring old books to gatherings so people can look through
> them. I think leaving them in the box is risky, however I also know
> that Heidi and I like looking through the early entries. Hmmmmmm....
>
> -Steve, Heidi, and Madras

It's kind of interesting that you brought up this idea. In the
interest of avoiding a potential flame war, I never mentioned that I
took pictures of a log book that was damaged over the summer. Donna
and I created a web page of the images and left the link in the box
for any future seekers. If you're interested in seeing how this came
out, I will leave the link on the clues page for a brief period of
time. Unfortunately, we have a free geocities account so if all of
you try to log in at once, the bandwidth will overload and access
will be blocked.

Here is the link:

http://www.geocities.com/donna_and_darrin/goldenthread1.html

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "ticestamp"
wrote:
> Here is an idea for old log books. I would leave a link to a
webpage in the letterbox.
> The webpage would contain scans of the original log book. In doing
so, preserving
> the history of the letterbox.
>
>
>
>
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Steve and Heidi"

> wrote:
> > Here's a 10 cent question for all you boxers:
> >
> > What do you do with old log books that get full in the boxes you
have
> > placed? Obviously add a new book, but do you leave the first book
in
> > the box or pull it and safeguard it?
> >
> > Our Avery Tract Series is about 1/2 full and if this pace
continues
> > we will have to replace them all (like 8 books) in the spring.
> > Recently our Gorton Cemetery log got full and we made a new log
and
> > placed it in the box with the old one.
> >
> > I've seen JD bring old books to gatherings so people can look
through
> > them. I think leaving them in the box is risky, however I also
know
> > that Heidi and I like looking through the early entries.
Hmmmmmm....
> >
> > -Steve, Heidi, and Madras