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Originally Posted by jeffcobb
Digitized books are so different than any other medium (movies, etc) because the rest are so "disposable" they are like jokes; once told, the retelling rarely carries the same impact.
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I would hardly say that movies are a form of disposable art, whatever medium they are captured on. The Godfather bears repeat watching. The same applies to Woman in the Dunes, The Thirty Nine Steps, My Man Godfrey, etc. Thus, I could easily name 1001 movies you should watch before you die, and which you would probably not mind watching twice if you were to live long enough.
Others have compiled lists of 1001 books of significance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Bo...Before_You_Die
Now, the challenge in life is finding the time to acquire the movies or books in these lists. I'd say that the former category (movies) is more difficult to do than the latter (books), whether or not one resorts to the Darknet. Even though it is easier to find ebooks, servers going down and torrents disappearing does not always make it so. As a collector, I would rather pursue legal channels of obtaining books. This invariably points to used pbooks. To me, rare ebooks are too elusive, and a waste of my search time.