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If you think about it, libraries aren't just depositories for book, they are redundant depositories for books. That means that if a disaster befalls Mankind, many books are likely to survive, somewhere.
Apply that sensible thinking to digital files, and sooner or later we can expect to see multiple hardened depositories for digital files. The good news is, such depositories don't need to be a huge building, they only need to be a protected server and dedicated power in a small room, much easier to locate, and easier to make so many more of them. After some planning and effort, it would be easy enough to place hundreds of those all over the world, one or three in orbit, stick one on the Moon, and send the last one off to Betelgeuse just for grins...
True, if we go to nuclear WWIII before we get around to doing that, we'll lose our digital books... along with our printed books. But it really won't be that important at that point, will it?
To get us back on topic, it should be noted that the Nazis would have loved WWIII, as it would have solved the whole book-burning thing in one fell swoop...
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