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Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:16AM (#26165524)
Some of the most valuable books have more to do with the inner world than the outer.

Other than binding, which can be re-done pretty easily, paperbacks are readable after 50-100 years.

The paper may yellow, but crumbling takes a bit longer.

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Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:13PM (#26170246)
You may have been unusually lucky. I barely dare open some of the paperbacks I bought in the 70s and 80s.

Although I have PDFs of all of them, so it doesn't matter. The fact that I can change the font size to make them legible now does, to me at least.

The hardbacks are still fine. (Except for the print size.)

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