Comment by iandanforth
5 hours ago
If true this is basically unforgivable. The wanton destruction of history is the stuff of the Third Reich and the Taliban. You simply cannot profess to care about knowledge, culture, or civilization while destroying the physical manifestations of the same.
Yes, actually you can. The fetish of physical book worship is a fossil of an age when information storage and retrieval was much harder.
I strongly disagree with this take, a book might remain readable thousands of years from now but very few if not zero of our digital data formats likely will. We shouldn't be so quick to throw away diversity in the way information which may be useful for future generations is stored for the long term.
Paper doesn't easily survive for thousands of years.
You know that pleasant used bookstore smell? It's paper slowly decomposing.
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