On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Eric Gjerde <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's the really fascinating thing - *ONLY* dedicated superfans are > willing to spend the time accumulating an exhaustive and complete > collection of arcane materials. > > so by the very nature of the act, the people pirating these documents are > also origamists, and super-collectors too. (or at least those distributing > the initial file sets!) > This reminds me of a discussion I had with a librarian once. There are a two philosophies for maintaining a collect. Just in Case and Just in Time. Just in Case calls for a large and comprehensive collection to meet any need that comes up. Just in Time maintains a smaller, more active, collection and relies on inter-library lending to meet the current needs. In terms of my origami book collection, I have quite a few (200+) because I want them "just in case". If someone makes a model request of me, I would like to be able to find a diagram in my collection and fold it, even if the request is odd or obscure. (platypus comes to mind) Along the same line, I am something of a hoarder of digital files as well. I like to save a local copy of any diagram I have seen online because it is sometimes easier to reference later and, frequently, the original version will become unavailable. I do not share this collection, I just keep it for my own reference, but the recent request for some lost diagrams shows the occasional value of this type of hoarding. malachi
