I think I have like 5 annual roundup emails in my inbox now each with a list of review-summaries
I think the simpler explanation is publisher resistance to amazon's pricing dominance in ebooks. The aesthetic preference fits into my case 4 (waldenponding memberberries).
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The resilience point I believe to be way overstated: people simply don't care. They're willing to risk loss of 99% of books. It's like activists think people care about privacy way more than they actually do. Whatever the actual risks, people act like recoverability will be easy.
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Yeah and related to that pricing weirdness, often cheaper to buy (used books at least!) Re: aesthetics, I'm thinking more about where it overlaps w/ actual utility. Books just feel good to hold, better to gift, etc. I think fairly pervasive even if unconscious
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yeah that's the main reason I've bought paper books recently: price. In rare cases (a couple of graphic novels) for aesthetics. Mostly I assume we're in a future of indefinitely improving general access and most stuff will go public domain and I won't even need to own them
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books as decor
Ebook plateau partly due to weird econ stuff but also paper books = aesthetically preferable *and* resilient tech superior to ebooks in many ways
(I'm no pbook supremacist, read lots on kindle too & all for new book forms/tech!)