The two most recent pieces of snail mail that I received were: - A letter from leer10; we're keeping up our Hubski pen pal correspondence. I really look forward to receiving and reading his letters. There's something extraordinarily pleasant about reading what someone has taken the time to actually write about their life, their hobbies, and their ideas. Not to mention establishing a personal connection through a medium so rarely used these days. - A copy of G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire by Katherine Frank, an anthropologist. I have yet to start reading it, as I'm just under halfway through Tolstoy's War and Peace (with Stephen King's The Dark Tower Volume II on hold in the background). Well said! The aforementioned War and Peace is a physical copy I got at a car boot sale for €1; I downloaded the copy of The Dark Tower Volume II to my laptop from Library Genesis. I think it's telling that I put the latter on hold and started reading the former.The upside of actual tangible artifacts is that they have a presence. Their tangibility means that I will pick them up, carry them, hold them. They will find their way to me more randomly. I don't have to consciously seek them out. The postcards can be put up on the wall or fridge, the books will find their way to a shelf where others will be exposed to them.