Tonight I was cleaning up our office and came across a stack of magazines of Jon's, on topics I find somewhat mildly interesting, but perhaps not worth keeping around. "Why does he keep these?" I thought quietly to myself while stacking the magazines near the book shelf.
Five minutes later I was cleaning up around my desk and came across two relatively aged magazines of "Wired" - a technological magazine I tend to enjoy. "Oh I gotta keep these" I thought immediately.
Then caught myself in the utter irony of the situation.
Why do people keep magazines? I think partly it is because magazines can link us to a community, to like minded content subscribed to by other like minded people and written by like minded people. It can created a loose sense of belonging. Additionally, they have no battery power or screen resolutions, so they are always readable, barring water stains. So it is a relatively stable medium with interesting content we most likely already approve of. No wonder we want to keep them.
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