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Article #624657Re: Xerox 1980s bitsavers
From: Peter Flass
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:37
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:37
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > 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. > Wow 51 boxes! I have about five boxes of _Analog_ from the 60's thru the 80s maybe. After several attempts to sell them I finally faced the fact that no one wants them at any price. Right now they're sitting on a tarp out by the road waiting to go into the trash tomorrow. -- Pete
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