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Article #624663Re: Xerox 1980s bitsavers
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:35
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:35
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> writes: >On 1 Jul 2018 15:49:09 GMT >Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > >> I fear that isn't entirely true. We moved 51 boxes of SF books last >> time (in Feb 2016). I'm kinda conflicted about the time, effort and >> money involved in that, given I'm unlikely to read them again, they >> aren't worth anything significant and the next person to do anything >> with them is likely to be my executor. > > I have a similar pile of books, this is the first place I haven't >erected shelving to hold them all and put them (back) into order - epubs >are so much handier, I just wish it was easier to buy new books in that >format. Nearly all of the old ones are freely downloadable, and I take the >view that if I bought a new copy once (true of pretty much my entire >collection) then I don't feel at all guilty about downloading an epub of it. Even the new ones show up on one or more of the 'alt' usenet groups, sometimes before they're officially released.
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