I like that my days of having to collect it are over. I put plenty of money into bad comics and bad novels just to enjoy some new stories.
Looking back most of it has not aged well, i was a different person in high school and very forgiving of bad tie in fiction.
While the Zahn trilogy is not great fiction or great science fiction, its very readable official fanfiction. I would say 90% of the rest could be sent to the wood chipper.