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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Bluntly put: properly maintained ebooks will be able to last longer than print books, but we won't be discovering long lost ebooks a thousand years from now like we did in the Renaissance.
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We might be. Information overload could lead to some things being lost as far as common access to.
On the other hand I doubt we are now or will be in the near or far future discovering too many lost paper books that impact society as they probably did in the renaissance. Unpublished manuscripts are still being discovered in closets etc., although many are hoaxes IIRC, but the chances of an authors unpublished works escaping a scrutiny of their hard drive by heirs seem a tad slim. Some still type them out laboriously on the old Underwood, but it is a dying breed I am afraid.
Helen