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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Extreme hoarders are whom you notice, and they are the ones shown in the media. You don't notice people who only hoard certain stuff, or you call them simply collectors.
I hoard ebooks, digital wallpapers and a couple of paper magazines. I don't hoard much anything else, either physically or digitally. Am I a hoarder? Or am I a collector? Depends on your definition, I guess.
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I'm fairly sure that use of the word "hoarder" to simply mean "collector" would, today, be limited to dragons sitting on their piles of treasure and similar.
Most people would, I bet, assume we're talking about
hoarding disorder.
I certainly do.
And my question, which was just an aside that is now long off topic, was just wondering if those hoarders believe their piles of old newspapers or collections of unreadable, obsolete ebook files have value and use, and THAT'S why they're compelled to keep them, or if they are compelled to keep them despite believing they have no value or use.