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Originally Posted by ardeegee
It is just a form of hoarding or completism in the digital realm. If you had plenty of shelf space, and people were giving away free (good quality) deadtree books, wouldn't you take lots of them, even if you knew you'd never get around to reading all of them?
I don't know how many pirated books I've accumulated over the years-- but they fill several DVDs.
My biggest completist fantasy? I would SO much love to have digital copies of the entire print runs of all pulp/"digest" type Science Fiction magazines published in the 20th century (extant examples being Asimov's and Analog) even though I would never, ever get around to reading more than a small fraction of them. |
Gutenberg is doing Astounding (Analog) from the start of the Clayton years. So far they have got 1930 and part of 1931...