A particular perk for me here, is that I am a bit of a packrat, and if I have books or magazines I will keep them, even if they get to be hilariously old. The exception to this is if I can find them in a digital form that won't run me broke. I can trade a pile of paper magazines now for a small cache of PDF files. :D
Agreed. I have moved those boxes of PE, Radio Electronics, Elementary Electronics, Byte (and Amiga/Atari mags) so many times over the past forty years - I'd really, really like to stop now :-)
