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Aside from damaging rare books, which I would argue against, storing phyical copies good idea. I thought rare books were photographically scanned (not flat-bedded)? Most people don't realize how fragile electronic media and formats are. Good paper stored reasonably well has a track record that is at least two orders of magnitude better than ANY electronic media and format. It doesn't do a few things easily such as copying, indexing, searching and is still susceptible to flood and fire.
Come back in 100 years and we'll talk again about digital archiving. That's an extreme but the issues are already observed by many of us after only 10 to 20 years.
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