Preserving knowledge

I was having a discussion with someone the other day about the storage of knowledge. He'd been reading something about the huge British Library warehouses required to house "stuff no-one will ever want to read". He said he could accept that some books ought to be kept, but the line needed to be drawn somewhere – celebrity memoirs, or "magazines about stupid interests like the ones they laugh at on Have I Got News For You." There is no way on earth that these things are worth keeping, he said. ( More )