Have you gone digital?

[fivekatz]

Everything but books. I still prefer a book to a Kindle or iPad delivery of the content. But I have no use for paper periodicals anymore.

All my music and video is now off of plastic and loaded on to servers with back-up. I don't miss VHS or even DVDs but at moments I get a bit misty eyed about my old LP albums with the great jackets.

[Rusty Eldora]

It has been 18 months since I renewed any magazines. It is down to a trickle now. Stopped the newspapers 3 and 5 years ago. Still like books but really slowed down buying there.

I have a huge porn collection: I think I have 12 years straight of Mayfair, Model Directory, and Just Girls. All British so always needed to buy on ebay. Also a big Score collection among a bunch of other mags. Haven't bought a porn mag in over 4 years now. Maybe its my 25" very high def monitor.

[Willie Escalade]

Exactly. I used to buy tons of porn mags...until I got the Internet.

[Gillian]

I love that clip!!

Have you been lifting weights?

[Wendy Summers]

I love that clip!!

Have you been lifting weights?

It was the subtlety of the reveal when he points to the mailbox that did me in.

[martin48]

Can't get rid of the vinyl.

Quite - here's engineering Garrard 401 turntable + SME arm. There's an angel

[TempestTS]

I was going to go all digital - couldnt find a scanner big enough for my whole body...

[Stavros]

I have no sentimental attachment to vinyl and junked it all some years ago when moving -takes up too much space, is too heavy and most is available on cd -I think it makes you ask the hard questions about what you really want to keep when it comes to replacing vinyl. These days I don't buy any magazines, I buy a newspaper once a week, on a Saturday, so get all my news online.

I have an iPad but have not invested in any films or music yet, mainly because Apple doesn't cater for people with my tastes. It doesn't store the music I want, or if it does I already have it on cd or on my iPod and loaded it from a cd as it is not available in the apple store. Its film collection is mainstream and uninterested in innovation and rarities; just take Ingmar Bergman, with only five films available mostly from the early period, and, apart from Sawdust and Tinsel, no classics. I wanted to download some ballet but it doesn't exist in the Apple store; again, consider something as basic as Swan Lake -you can buy one or two extracts (from different sources) but not the whole ballet, I think its because the whole Apple format is based on pop songs and can't deal with anything that lasts longer than 3 minutes. For this reason going digital may work for popular entertainment but for the films and music that one returns to again and again, it is limited at best, at worst completely useless.

I like books, the feel and the smell of them; I know I have too many, but did manage to sell 250 to a dealer some years ago which created a lot of space. I have access to two copyright libraries so I ought to get rid of most of my books, but some particular editions are the ones I am used to, and American books don't often find their way into the UK library network, and some have sentimental value and for that reason cannot be replaced. But I must admit it is amazing how much is on the web.

There are also things like paintings, photographs and sculpture that cannot be reproduced digitally and which enhance the quality of my private space.

Verdict: yes, its a good idea, but right now, limited in function and appeal.

[Dino Velvet]

I was going to go all digital - couldnt find a scanner big enough for my whole body...

My farts aren't as warm and smelly when they're in digital format either.

[Bopper007]

My farts aren't as warm and smelly when they're in digital format either.

So you are staying anal-log?