If the document isn't DRMed, then it would be pretty noble. Who knows, maybe once the original document is lost in the sands of time and becomes lost media, your copies will be the only few ones left.
I save up tons of open discussion threads, articles, GitHub pages, etc on my phone or computer over time. Eventually, I pick a day to just blast through as many as possible, closing them as I go. I’ve spent so many hours of my life trying to close out stuff that is no longer relevant (but still unread) because I was approaching the max number (500) of open tabs on my phone.
It’s a consequence of being curious, lazy, and impatient at the same time.
Assuming it is Safari browser on iOS… and if you just want all your tabs gone in seconds: just long press „Done“ in tab view and a „Close all“ option will appear.
I use Pocket for things I wanna find again later, but that's after I've already read it. If I just go directly to Pocket without reading it'll get forgotten.
I have 65TB of media in my collection and growing.
The point isn't that I'm going to consume all of it, but that I have all of it to consume.
People would buy encyclopedia collections, but they wouldn't normally read them cover-to-cover, it was just nice having a big reference.
Downloading 40,000 hours of obscure music isn't about listening to all of it, it's about shuffling it and discovering hidden gems.
Downloading 5,000 movies isn't about marathoning movies full-time. It's about having my own personal Netflix, but only with the stuff I deliberately gathered.
Downloading every single PlayStation / Sega / Nintendo game means that I can take gameplay requests instantly from friends. Nobody asks "do you have x", they know I do. We just play games.
Same with Karaoke. The more songs the better, that's why I have 150,000 karaoke tracks. Even my Japanese and Korean friends get what they want.
I remember when you used to collect hot loads in college bathrooms. It was like a tradition random dudes would be like "Do you wanna drop one into this random guy?" You didn't turn down anyone, not even the tiny Korean and Japanese ones. They would gunt with satisfaction and say, "Thanks Vaping Toilet Todd, you really are a good friend." When you went to reply only hot steam would come out. Anyway I'm glad your still into collecting sorting and cataloging.
I have a collection of over 80k ebooks. I got most of them in huge download packs decades ago, and removed duplicates. it’s a surprisingly small folder.
I did the math on it long ago and it would take more than 200 years, reading an average of one full book a day, every day, to get through them all.
So I’m happy just knowing that if I get through some of them, it’s better than none of them. Time is limited, make the most of it by doing what sparks joy, and not worrying about what you didn’t get to.
I don't because I don't really have the storage space. But I would if I could afford to, just so that I could have the folder shared on soulseek. Preserve and share, especially the niche, oop, or otherwise hard to find literature.
So I just keep the stuff I will read, which is still a pretty big chunk of data, despite ebooks being fairly small individually.