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> I used to collect books. It was a big part of my life. I used to collect stamps, comics, books, CDs, video games. I believe it's was a compulsive behavior of
by boobsbr 10y ago
> I used to collect books. It was a big part of my life.
I used to collect stamps, comics, books, CDs, video games. I believe it's was a compulsive behavior of mine.
Then I had to move to another city and leave all of it behind, stored in my parents' house. Then I started collecting digital music to replace my physical library, and had tons of music I never listened to. One day my external drive crashed and I lost it all.
I then realised collecting physical and digital stuff was hampering me. Physical stuff is hard to drag with you anytime you have to move. Digital stuff ends up taking space as well, because you start to collect physical media to store the digital stuff in it.
Nowadays I just listen to whatever is available on Youtube and read books on an e-reader.
- SomeCallMeTim 10y agoI collected stamps as a kid too, though I did eventually quit. And I still have binders of my old CDs and some of my truly ancient video games. I should probably ditch the lot of it, but we haven't moved in quite a long time and probably won't for years, so the total impact is a few bookshelves and a couple of boxes in the storage room. Not so bad. I keep my music in my computer which I regularly back up to two different external drives in a rotating manner. Not because I'm specifically worried about losing my music, but because I just do regular backups in case any of my drives fail and/or I finally get stung by a ransomware trojan (thus TWO external drives; they're never both plugged in at the same time).