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Me in 2014: "I don't need books anymore, maybe only a dozen PDFs about the topic I'm currently working on, everything is on the internet."

Me in 2024: "I'm back to hoarding. Wow, the backups from 2014 still work."

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I've had too many brilliant articles disappear so I save pdfs of several pages a day.

And how often do you go back to read them?

Not OP, but if you save the article as a text or some other easily indexable format, it'll pop out when searching locally for relevant keywords. Intentionally going back to the exact article? Rarely.

Good insightful articles from specific domains or on certain topics are the most ephemeral content.

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