I decided when things started getting bad to start downloading everything I could find on the internet relating to Jews and Judaism. A big part of Judaism is preservation of texts. The prohibition on throwing out anything containing God's name has almost accidentally functioned as demand to preserve material culture. A prime example of this is the Cairo Geniza, a collection of texts found in a Cairo synagogue's attic that is a mind-blowing resource for historians because its pretty every scrap of parchment a community used for over 200 years.
So I've got my Geniza going and I've got something like 70 GB. I have a couple of 128 GB USB sticks and an extremely limited budget. I also kind of want to write a novel about someone who finds my Geniza in the far off future.
It's cool to see other people with the same impulse I have. I've got my own little corner of reality to preserve. So do the rest of you, apparently. That's cool.
Anyway, any tips for organizing an extremely large and unwieldy library of pdf's?