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Manchuia has the great good fortune to be young. So s/he may not realise that technology breaks dowm, or may not care about preserving her/his work yet. Possibly s/he hasn't yet had the enormous irritation of seeing ten years' work becoming almost inaccessible because the Amstrad PCW (with its 3.5" disks) has a broken hard drive. It happened to me. Luckily, I found someone who could do a conversion to askii. It wasn't cheap.
Fast forward another eight years and repeat the process when the iMac died.
I'm an academic and I need my lectures, notes and books. I've now learned that data isn't safe unless you keep it in at least two different places and in transferable formats.
It all depends on your attititude to books etc. Some people (like me) want to keep most of them forever. Others see many of them as disposable, like magazines.
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