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− | (Did you mean a [[Collector (DeVore)|Howard DeVore fanzine]] or a [[Collector (Bennett)|Vern Bennett fanzine]]?)
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− | Someone who has been bitten by the [[Kolektinbug]] and develops an obsessive-compulsive disorder that that drives him or her to accumulate large amounts of sf books, [[fanzines]], [[prozines]], sf artwork and/or other materials related to science fiction. Collectors are not necessarily [[fans]], but fans are highly prone to the disease.
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− | Some collectors, especially [[completists]], collect according to a plan — all the issues of a particular magazine, for example, or all the first editions by their favorite author — but others just accumulate more and more of their obsessional objects until they have no room to move around in their houses.
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− | Those stricken, of course, say they are practitioners of the highest and noblest form of [[fanac]], especially when associated with compiling ''and publishing'' a detailed Index or [[bibliography]]. Such collectors are [[trufen]] and almost by definition mensches. "I might need that someday..."
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− | [[Forry Ackerman]] was [[fandom]]’s most famous collector.
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− | See [[Collecting]].
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