If true this is basically unforgivable. The wanton destruction of history is the stuff of the Third Reich and the Taliban. You simply cannot profess to care about knowledge, culture, or civilization while destroying the physical manifestations of the same.

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pfdietz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, actually you can. The fetish of physical book worship is a fossil of an age when information storage and retrieval was much harder.

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BoxOfRain 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I strongly disagree with this take, a book might remain readable thousands of years from now but very few if not zero of our digital data formats likely will. We shouldn't be so quick to throw away diversity in the way information which may be useful for future generations is stored for the long term.

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pfdietz an hour ago | parent [-]

Paper doesn't easily survive for thousands of years.

You know that pleasant used bookstore smell? It's paper slowly decomposing.

	▲	BoxOfRain 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'd be willing to bet that there's a lot more readable paper from thousands of years ago than there will be readable digital data from today in thousands of years. Digital information has to be actively preserved in every case, whereas paper can be passively preserved in some cases.