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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[RPGS] Why do I keep finding fragments of journals spread all around instead of one place?

I can never find them in just one place or book? Why would someone tear out pages or type entries in different computers around the wasteland?
gpt
Possibilities include:

1) There are many copies of the one journal, all of which were almost completely destroyed except for a page or two.   The same thing might be said of trying to recreate some old form of boat or machine, and there are very few of the parts still around.  Only the diligent will assemble a fully restored stock version. 

2) The journal was written by someone with "Johnny Appleseed Kinetic Assembly Sickness" (JAKAS Disease) who wants to 'seed' his manifesto about the world.  Instead of copying it, he puts a page here and there.

3) Its a holy relic, and pieces of the 'One True Journal' were take by the faithful to places of worship scattered about the world.  Generations later, the worship has faded away, but the relics remain.

4) Ooooh, shiny!   Some animals found the pages of the journal useful for something, like nesting material.  Indestructible nesting material.  Now, hundreds of years later, the nesting material has been used countless times but it scattered everywhere.

5) It was a collectible.  Not holy, but cherished for some other reason, like "the mad writings of that famous screwball wizard" or 'forget the words, the illustrations on the other side of the page are amazing art" or something.  As such, collectors put them in their deepest safespots.  Now, generations after those collectors have died off, only the vaults (and vault keepers) are left. 

and so on

Or for the boring reason, its a scavanger hunt to test for a worthy hero, blah blah blah.