Anyway... I have a lot of feelings about physical media. ... and not just because this specifically is a vast treasure trove of decades of designs on the (now impossible to find elsewhere) tissue pattern paper... But because software changes and files degrade over time and buying pdfs doesn't last.
... but let me tell you, printing them on wide-format paper at the local print shop is NOT CHEAP! It's one thing to buy a pattern for $15. And a completely different thing to print it for $60. And printing on regular letter paper and taping the design together is... NOT EASY EITHER!
Yeah, I've pretty much gone to about 6 patterns that I traced, and use as blocks. The PDF taping thing is the worst! But if you really want to make your brain hurt, try tracing from the multi-pattern pages that come with the Japanese pattern books. Boy howdy.
100% When learning about data archiving when I was a fed, they said data on acid free paper, properly stored, can last 100 years. Digital data lasts 5 and changes format. So ... I like paper!📝