I've started collecting movies and books that the left will go after just in case things go south. I went with a lot of Mell Brooks and Monty Python classics for DVD's. For books, Orwell and Bradbury.
Any other selections to pay attention to?
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I do that. Albeit I don't have thousands or even close. With movies and TV not as much lately because there's nothing new I want. I've gotten where I generally only buy classics I'll want to watch again, so for example purchases last year ranged from Lawrence of Arabia to the Dark Knight trilogy. Not a ton of TV outside of recorded old sitcoms from OTA on my Plex, probably 1TB of that stuff. I may expand TV a bit this year, but there's so few series I care about.
Books on the other hand, I've always wanted paper books. I didn't hang on to much from when I was a kid, but since I really got back into reading 5-ish years ago I've probably got 100 books or so. Little bit of everything, general fiction, biographies, learning books, fiction stuff, even some Japanese manga I picked up for nothing at a Goodwill because it was cool. I can't even read it, and I really just tried out English manga this year (still digitally). I tried Kindle for a while. Didn't care for it. Right now if I'm going somewhere and don't want to take the space for a big book, I see if the public library app will let me borrow it to read. I did that just last week with Out Of The Silent Planet. I was traveling by backpack and the book is a huge 800-page trilogy thing. Quick free app borrow and I could read while I was gone.
Even Lord of the Rings is being deranged into shit, look at Amazon. I need to buy that book in a high quality paperback. Only thing stopping me is I need to move to leave the exurbs and go full rural before 2024 personally.
I think Lord of the Rings is one of the few books I have on the Kindle app. I haven't gone on there in ages to see. I wonder if they made changes to that version.
Outside of most stuff I buy to read, it's fun to pick up curiosities like the aforementioned manga books or about any old book that I see. I've got some old books that were my great-great-grandfathers mostly from the 1900-decade. He was kinda a knowledge nerd too it seems, collected a bunch of books on history and things like that. Pretty interesting to read things from an 120 year old perspective.