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[kbadr]

Moving yesterday made me realize that there will probably be a time where moving all of my music, books, and movies will consist of picking up a harddrive, or at worst, a handful of feather-light devices. This is cool, but part of me likes having bookshelves full of books

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[jefpeanutbutter]

I really, really want to believe there will always be bookshelves full of books.

[bellatrixamici]

I can believe that books will be around for awhile, but music and movies in individual packaging/physical form are already on their way out. I say good riddance. I hate having a bunch of CDs/DVDs. My one worry is that too much good overlooked stuff will be lost in the transfer.

[jefpeanutbutter]

I too have no problem with the extinction of CDs and DVDs, but that's simply digital media finding a more proper and efficient home. As with books, I don't want records to go away. Analog sound is important!

[ericfish]

You can judge me by the images/sounds on my floor-to-ceiling billion pixel mood wall.

[ms_vesey]

In regards to your second paragraph, I think you can look in our house and know how we feel. How we feel is "exactly."

[hujhax]

For some reason, the 'owning lots of books' thing just doesn't appeal to me.  It's odd -- I do read a fair amount, but I've been slowly whittling down my book collection over the years.  *shrug*  Maybe it's that I was raised by packrats, and now I get twitchy if I start accumulating too much stuff.

In any case, I do not begrudge other people their libraries -- ease-of-judgment-passing etc.

[wackyengineer]

If you are in need of divesting yourself of good books, let me know and I will give them a home!

[majcher]

I keep wanting to ditch all my books and go digital, but I can't. The music and movies and whatever media going on disk, yeah, awesome - let me watch or listen to whatever whenever without having to deal with physical media. But even though I do most of my reading online already, and have a kindle and everything, I just find that I enjoy reading much more with a physical book.

My two big excuses for maintaining a biggish library (aside from the "hey! people can look at my bookshelves and judge me!" part) are reference browsing, and being able to let my kid sit in a room full of books and swim through them. My dad had one room that was just a big library when I was a kid (he was a librarian, of course), and I would just spend all day in there looking through stuff. I don't see how that experience can be replicated digitally, without going into Neruromancer fantasyland.