Cutting and Pasting vs. Placing Images

Hi there,
I'm currently doing some visual research for a class project and I'm collecting some images from the web for my presentation booklet. Normally when I do this, I save each image to my folder and then place the images into either illustrator or indesign (depending on which one I need to use). However for this one I have a lot of images and it just seems kind of crazy to have to save them all individually and then place them all one by one. At the end of the day they're just filler images, nothing too important (quite small) but they need to be there.
What is the main disadvantage of just copying and pasting images in this scenario? Once I have collected all the images I need and arrange them on my spread, can I not just copy that to indesign and have that as an 'embedded' image? I won't need to edit them...they're just research pictures.
Anyway I hope I've explained myself somewhat coherently...

Bayne,
If you File>Place, you may tick Link and thereby have them as linked images without adding to the AI file size (before you save to PDF or something).

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