To me, this is what separates those of us with the souls of librarians from others.
Sure, the sites may be fluff. But they are someone's work. Promo designers are people too. They have mothers.
It's the trivial bits of history that you end up
missing the most.
And I might not be making this argument if we were talking about an old building taking up valuable space in a city, or even a shelf of books taking up space in my city library. It's a bunch of websites. Unlikely that the lot of them add up to a whole terabyte. Spend three hundred bucks on backup drives and twenty bucks a month on a Dreamhost account. [1]
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[1] Sorry that I can't reliably translate "twenty bucks worth of hosting" into equivalent UK units. ;)
I'd be on your side, except that I've never been to a library that kept copies of every promotional sheet, advertisement, review, etc. for every book that they had.
Curation implies some degree of selectivity to the process.
Sure, the sites may be fluff. But they are someone's work. Promo designers are people too. They have mothers.
It's the trivial bits of history that you end up missing the most.
And I might not be making this argument if we were talking about an old building taking up valuable space in a city, or even a shelf of books taking up space in my city library. It's a bunch of websites. Unlikely that the lot of them add up to a whole terabyte. Spend three hundred bucks on backup drives and twenty bucks a month on a Dreamhost account. [1]
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[1] Sorry that I can't reliably translate "twenty bucks worth of hosting" into equivalent UK units. ;)