Some of my friends still threaten me with what they will do to me if I ever ask them again to help me move. My boxes of books and magazines are infamous (almost as bad as my wife's old Varityper, which needs nothing less than a crane to shift). But I want to keep those books and mags, because I go back and reread them, too.
I'm with Bob, if there was a way to convert all of that to electronic files, I'd lose the boxes, lose the bookcases, lose a LOT of paper weight. And I'd never throw away a book again for lack of space.
Are e-books disposable? No more or less than paper books. Disposable... like a lot of things... is in the eye of the beholder.
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