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I liked looking through my parents' photos as a kid, but there was a couple of photo books at most. I can't imagine my (hypothetical) grandkids sorting through 60 years worth of digital photos unless software has gotten a lot better.

The busy work and stress of dealing with digital photos has actually caused me to take fewer photos. I have a preservationist bent and I just don't want to deal with organizing them.

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that's the sad part - few photos available made each of them worthy inspection, bringing memories etc.

now, having 100 GB of photos & videos from somebody's childhood will either produce ignorance of whole content (no, nobody will ever want to go through all of them, guaranteed, and if yet they would hate it), or some automated way (yet to be invented) to take out best maybe 100-200.

By not selecting few good worthy now, you're just pushing the decision into the future, to your/somebody else's shoulders.

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