I thought of that - but I still have a few friends on LJ that I go look at their LJs once in a blue moon, and I've found having an LJ account handy in getting access to old posts from people who *didn't* delete their LJs. At least one or two I've gotten to add me as a friend so I could access locked fic and stuff. (I'm still creating epubs of every LJ fic I find, just in case - and so I can read them offline.)