I thought the thread was about paper books.
Most just read them, without annotating. As the technology improves and gets cheaper, more and more of us will move over to electronic reading.
Ditto for much of the other stuff. Most illustration, animation, design, photography, writing, research, etc., have already moved over to electronic workflow. And the change did not happen over such long period of time. Some, who did not adapt fast enough, saw their jobs disappear.
"Paper" papers and magazines seem to be the first to go, but books are next. Whether you like it or not
P.S. University faculty are not the target. Most I know are not subject to the pressures to adapt, at work in the "outside" world, and many, particularly in the non-tech-geek fields, are technologically averse (again, in my experience.) Many could barely set up a projector....
