I have two copies of Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" staying side-by-side on my bookshelf. One is a normal post-soviet edition, and another one is self-made book produced from bounded together pages from one of "tick soviet literature journals" of the 70-80th with additional pages typed on typewriter containing censored out pieces scattered all over the text. (I remember once being 8-10 year old and wondered by this unusual layout, browsing specially through these pages without much understanding what it means). This is certainly document of its epoch, and I will keep it along with any fancy and perfect "normal" editions.

A few days ago my wife braught three nicely printed and bounded brochures which appeared to be a hard-copy print of some rare works of Strugatsky, Paulo Coelho "O Alquimista", and a bunch of Borches-like essays of Pelevin from the infamous Moshkow's library.

Despite my snobbish attitude to reprints from the Internet, I acknowledge the fact that these brochures contained what is not available rigth now in Tel-Aviv russian bookstores (at least Pelevin), and I enjoyed them very much (especially Pelevin).

I intend to keep them anyway, as they are documents of their epoch too.