Dan writes: I certainly agree that the extreme of hoarding everything in one place is the worst possible scenario. I don't even think that hoard is necessarily the word most would use; think of Don Maslin's careful archive of every CP/M boot floppy ever, that was by no means a hoard because he shared it, one piece at a time with whoever needed it, but because it was all concentrated in one place it's now gone. Don and I had talked about hosting disk images etc. but we never got it done in general. But I don't think anyone so far has said that they would hoard it that way. Everyone agrees that PDF's for electronic distribution are a real win. Those who are seriously into it also know: 1. Scanning books without lopping off the spine can make for some pretty crappy scans. 2. After you're done, you gotta do something with the remaining paper. 3. In many (most!) cases the paper is already decaying. 4. There's just such a huge quantity of books, and manuals, and printsets, and they've already decayed some, and they're all gonna decay more. Tim.