Why does it matter if it is considered canon or not? If you enjoyed it, then it wasn't a waste of time and brain space.

Sometimes I think some of you guys forget that NONE of this stuff EVER happened. It is all made up anyway. What difference does it make if Lucas' lackeys tell you it did or didn't happen? All that matters is what you enjoy it. No one should feel obligated to read, watch, or play anything that they don't enjoy just because, by golly, it is Star Wars! Who cares what the Lucas machine says is or isn't canon. Why does it matter? It is all such a silly tangled mess anyway. The EU has always been about making money, and excluding things from canon isn't really a very good way to sell them, is it? So of course they will do whatever they have to in order to include it all. Notice how all the stuff that isn't canon has been long out of print? It is no longer making money, and it is so far out of line with everything else it isn't worth their effort to figure out ways to try to convince the average TF.N or SW.com frequenter that it really happened in their beloved fantasy universe.

I was relatively young when the 90's EU flood hit, and there is some of it I enjoyed then and look back on nostalgically that I probably wouldn't have liked at all if I read it for the first time now.

I couldn't care less about anything that has come out bearing the Star Wars name over the last ten years, but I did appreciate having EU back in the days when I was young and couldn't quite get my fill of the series. Even back then I realized that much of it was silly and understood that it was nowhere near the quality of the films, but I had a good time reading it and enjoyed exploring other corners of that galaxy that would have otherwise only have been possible by means of my own imagination.