I recently visited Toronto for the first time in eight years and got the chance to spend some time with an old friend at his house.  Eventually, I perused his main media collections:  Books, CD, DVD and Games and this helped me understand how his taste has developed since we last saw each other and gave us a springboard for shared experiences. 

This browsing and judging as it were reminded me that this is actually a very common nature and in many ways it’s helped us over the years understand if we’re generally going to like someone or not.  If the CD collection had more Kenny G over Miles Davis, you knew it was time to call time and make your departure fairly swiftly.

Heck, even the organisation of media was a big thing.  Did you do A-Z by Author, Chaos Theory, or Dewey Decimal. 

Actually, a rival in winning my fair wife’s hand lost significant points for his incessant and rather gruff need to re-order her book collection A-Z by Title!

Anyway, this all had me think that actually the demise of physical media is going to have an everlasting impact on this behaviour and I for one am very sad it won’t be long before I will be able to walk into someone’s house, look at shelves and judge that person!

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