the new yorker

ok, so for the paultry price of $100 i could own the new yorker on dvd/cd-rom....all of them.....4000 issues....all the way back to the beginning.......of course.....i have personally thrown away/recycled 25 years or so of issues.....whereas my family has always felt the need of keeping every issue of national geographic......between my house and my mothers we could probably reconstruct the entire run of that magazine......for us it was a red letter day when we allowed the first child to actually cut out a picture from an old issue.....which is almost up there with writing in the bible.....which i allow myself to do these days as well.......making notes in the margins is a helpful way to remember key points........but i digress.....there are articles that i wish i kept....like the jonathan franzen article about his dad's losing battle with alzheimer's disease........i wept through that piece.....even the second time i read it.......and i would like a shot at reading some of the short stories that i blew off the first go-round for lack of time......now that i have complete access to each and every week's issue......i can systematically make my way from front to back.....reading everything that is of some interest.......one could consider it pitiable to read reviews of plays i will not see or restaurants that i will never try.....but on the other hand.....i will be prepared on the off-chance that i will make it to the city a few more times in the next 4 years....while the middle child is up east........and prepared is my motto when it comes to potential travel.......somewhere i have a stack of new yorker covers....the best of the bunch so to speak........or at least the ones that i thought to keep before recycling the rest.......after cutting out the best cartoons, that is.......and it is quiote possible that i cut out the franzen article, as well....but it is so much easier to covet the dvd set than it is to search through all of my collected boxes/baskets/bins of stuff.....is not having to look worth $100?.......