Equally enjoyable are the kind of postcards the photographer Martin Parr has made a point of collecting over many years.
That's why I make a point of collecting young artists' pieces, it is very encouraging for them.
He has made a point of collecting ballpoint pens advertising formerly heavily promoted medications, like the painkiller Vioxx, that were later withdrawn after reports of dangerous side effects.
But it has also made a point of collecting works that touch on other subjects, even if the sacred and the amorous are seldom entirely out of reach.
"I think some of the readers miss the point of collecting data on race and ethnicity," Dan from Lexington, Mass., commented.
Defenders argue that the whole point of collecting facts is to learn when not to telephone and what not to shove through the letterbox.
The Addams who made a point of collecting crossbows and using a little girl's tombstone for a coffee table was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye.
Although apparently untroubled by the carnage inflicted on German civilians, he was pained by French casualties to the point of collecting money to send to help Allied bombing orphans.
What's the point of collecting information if you don't read it and use it to inform policymakers?
