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I like the social quality of libraries ... the sense of other people reading/studying in a common place, even if they're not all focused on the same thing.
But I'll never miss the old card catalogues. Online searches are a vast improvement.
As for feel and smell of books, I don't think dead-tree format is going away any time soon. In the meantime, maybe someone will invent a book-scented cologne that we can spray on our readers? Maybe something along the lines of Cuir de Russie, with its leather and wood notes ;-)
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