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I've never been worried about having books to read in retirement. The books have always been there. In retrospect, now that I'm noticing a difference, I should have been more worried about being able to read tiny, tiny print.
However, in nods to posts by Katsunami and montalex, I also think that even with Alf etc., there are formats undreamed of, and that today's ebooks could easily seem like those shelves full of videotaped movies which now reside at the dump. And those books which were bought for retirement in an earlier format, which are crumbling away anyway even if I were willing to try to focus on the aforementioned tiny, tiny font, have joined them.
I don't see the point in buying for more than ten years out, and even that's a long time. I figure that by then, ebooks will still be readable, but will have been superceded by something even better.
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