What can I say? I hoarde media.

I couldn't tell you why, but there's something satisfying in growing a collection. It's a psychological quirk of the species, and I am only human.

Fixing metadata of my eBook collection in Calibre and ensuring that I have each book series in its entirety is another example of a satisfying yet mostly pointless activity that I take part in. However, unlike eBooks, I can get through movies and TV shows much faster, making PleX a more 'active' activity, which is why I have added it here under my projects - it's an ongoing, growing effort.

Until recently, my collection was mostly DVDs and digital backups. It was after seeing a friend's dedicated media server that I greedily decided that I wanted one all of my own.

For some reason, I always manage to find the hardest way possible to do things, and so I purchased a refurbished Dell Optiplex from eBay, bought a bunch of harddrives, stripped the parts out of the Dell case, and am currently wrestling them into a new case with some difficulty, thanks to a select few components being proprietary. It's definitely a Work in Progress, but with a larger case in my possession and a new motherboard on its way, I am looking forward to having this up and running in the near future.

I have quite an ecclectic collection on the go, and am always open to new reccommendations. Please let me know of any of your must-haves that spring to mind.