I have long been a fan of organizing .... well, face it, just about anything, to make it easier to use, find information and so forth. Libraries and archives do this, too, obviously, but on a much higher level! One of the things that make it hard is having, on hand ALL the various equipment to access all this information ... tape recorders, cassette players, cd players, movie projectors (from home sized film to theater), dvd players, etc. And consider computers ... hard disks, floppy disks, thumb drives and so on (and many I'm sure I'm unaware of, too) (!). Okay, now imagine combining several formats for your own personal archives (email, texts, photos, scans, things you've written) (and again, more than I know about) ... and then what about things like privacy, copyright and so forth. Sound confusing? It is! However, if this is something you are interested in doing, here's a book that Kiwi recommended: The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving, edited by Brianna H. Marshall. Dense and detailed, there are step by step procedures for managing all gathering, storing, retrieving, sharing your information and more .... Since I will not be doing this, I read the introduction and conclusion to each section. ;-)

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