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Originally Posted by Format C:
Eventually, libraries will disappear, just like the most of the bookstores we know.
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Depends what sort of libraries you're talking about.
The great national libraries - The British Library, the Library of Congress, etc -are there primarily to be the custodians of the "literary treasures" of a nation, to preserve them for future generations, and to allow researchers access to them. That type of library certainly has a future, although there's now a clear trend of making the contents of such libraries available to anyone in the world via the Internet.
"Local" libraries from which you borrow books. Yes, these will disappear, I suspect.