datahoarders

Name/Pseudonym: Schaf, Malymin
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Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard? I don't think I have as much of a "hoard" as I'd like, but I do tend to squirrel away PDFs (ranging from articles to entire books) and random image files on flash drives and hard drives. I also like to keep anime episodes (for easy watching without internet access) and abandonware games on my PC.
Why do you data hoard? When I was a kid I noticed that websites I loved would often go down and never come back, because the webmaster could no longer afford to keep the domain. As a result, the internet not being a place of permanence struck me pretty early on. In addition, two formative pieces of media for me (the 1990's "Petz" games, and the 1998 Toei adaptation of "Yu-Gi-Oh!") only manage to continue to exist and be experienced due to piracy-as-preservation. If something goes out of print in an official capacity, it's gotta be preserved and backed up somewhere. Also, I like researching various topics, and it's cheaper to build a little nest of free PDFs than to splurge on books, as much as I prefer reading paper to reading a screen...
Anything else? I'm probably not as cool or good at this as most people here. u_u; Hope you'll have me anyways!

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