This is one of my “I’m probably the asshole here” opinions
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I'm reminded of how, during VCR era, people religiously taped their favorite shows and some even created libraries of entire series. Now we just assume it'll be on Netflix or Hulu or something, and if it goes offline, that it'll come back somewhere else soon enough.
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Totally. And—I realize I'm an outlier—but a lot of the books I buy = fruits of serendipitous discovery…and despite possibly inevitable comprehensive digitization, so many just not available as ebook! (Side benefit: physical books better for antilibrary, easier to skim etc.)
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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!)