>Chances are REALLY high that those enlightening web pages full of great info have long since been scrubbed by the tech overlords anyway. After losing countless fantastic source links with things I wanted to keep, I eventually had to go get a Tb drive and start downloading items (esp. videos) in real time before they vanish off the web. I started learning about certain things from books early on and have retained some of that, and when computers became available I only had very limited space for storing internet files (I was using floppy disks in the beginning when gigabyte-sized drives weren't around yet) and eventually lost much of that due to unforeseen events in my life. Later I started collecting more stuff, both from books and the internet, and started taking notes. I learned to rely on text-search utilities to quickly find information I had archived, which has helped a lot. I don't like videos because you can't retrieve information easily, and the quality of most video content isn't as reliable as the academic-level stuff I was drawn to. I've collected enough notes and writings of my own over the years to self-publish several books, as well as a few that I've never published. I also have a file full of notes that comes in very handy for referencing that I usually keep open all the time. It's laid out as a timeline of significant events that go back to the beginning of the Jews. I lost the more recent version of it that had a great deal more information than the copy I still have because of a hard drive accident, which pisses me off. Nowadays I just copy every web page that I think might be significant, but now it's mostly just current events. I have 10s of 1000s of web pages saved, and many more on that broken hard drive (not that I've read them all). I would start digging up some of the information I've lost that I know is still out there, but I have little desire to go through the hassle at this late point in my life. It's all been more of a personal learning experience for me than anything. The fact that I write notes and have compiled some of them into book form has been an exercise in memory retention and drawing out my thoughts more than it's been a desire to promote my material. I make a few bucks now and then on the published stuff, but nothing to get excited about. I just like to learn. It's good that you collect and share information. Storage space is very cheap these days so you should collect as much as you can, and make use of the power of computers to organize and retrieve things. If you use VLC media player, you can set up bookmarks in your videos to help you mark and find key points, which is something I recently learned how to do. You might also want to use a video editor like OpenShot to cut parts of longer videos into smaller file bites for sharing. Very easy to use.