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Originally Posted by mores
My wife has 5 Ikea "Billy" bookshelves with 2(!!) top-addition-thingies to hold all her literature stacked up on one wall ... looks rather nice, but still, a lot of dead trees that would take up no more than 50MB on my hard drive.
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At one time, that was our basement. My wife and I forced ourselves to trim 4 shelves on one wall to 2, and use some of those shelves for decoration other than books, to take the visual "weight" of all those books off of the one wall. Everything else got boxed. And as I add books or magazines, I have to figure out what comes down.
Mind you, I'm talking about the finished part of the basement. The unfinished Utility Room holds the boxes, plus three shelves of magazines and comics stretching across a 12-foot space. Lots of paper, that.
As housing prices rise and homes get smaller, space more expensive, I don't see how the average Joe is going to be able to keep up with that. I could recover an entire room's worth of space just by digitizing my collection... the kind of space people in some places in the world call their
entire home. How can the majority of people
not want to do that someday?