This set is really something (on eBay):

“Up for sale. Frigidaire Dealer service manuals “Tech Tips” accumulated over 50 years of service. We were a full line Frigidaire dealer from 1950-1992. These manuals were mailed out each year. We diligently filed each volume and purchased the genuine binders. There are service books for every product Frigidaire made, both with General Motors (GM) and White Consolidated (WCI). Bonus books include 1933 service book pictured and some parts manuals, breakdown, and quick references.

“We anticipate that you will pick this up at our Noblesville Indiana location. Shipping would be considered but at customer expense.”

At $2,000, I won’t be buying.  But this looks like a collection of materials that are worth saving as a complete set.  It's really unfortunate that university libraries don’t take more interest in this sort of thing.

The price is insane, and my guess is that most people prefer the ecopies from automatice, anyway.  But I’m a sucker for the printed page—and books are the retro choice, after all!! 

It just seems that physical collections like this deserve to be preserved somewhere, but so often, they’re just discarded.