Never mind, thank god others do... try some research on long term archiving, say that done by financial institutions for example... at least one organisation doesn't trust any archival method that hasn't been proved to be viable for at least a hundred years... and that's real years.
You stick with your digital only but others will retain alternative archival methods as well... and watch out for EMP and/or serious hacking, oxidisation of CD and DVD materials, magnetic print through, head crashes and...
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
If the books are properly translated to a digital archive, there is no need to keep the printed original to reference. Since redundant copies and archiving is much easier with a digital source (as long as you're proactive about backing up and updating archives), and available worldwide afterward, I can't see the value of taking up huge amounts of atmosphere-controlled space and literally tons of paper locked away for future "accessing" by a few lucky scholars.
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