It's amusing to note the short time frame the "books won't die" idea is working with. The original Kindle came out in 2007, just over ten years ago. That's a t

It's amusing to note the short time frame the "books won't die" idea is working with. The original Kindle came out in 2007, just over ten years ago. That's a tiny blip in the passage of history. I don't know what the long-term fate of books will be. What will things be like in 50 years? 100 years? 500 years? I do know that if you expected books to be gone barely ten years after the first mainstream ebook reader your perspective is severely limited. I was resistant to ebooks for a long time; I'm relatively recent adopter; I'm surprised at how much headway ebooks have made in such a short time. Several years ago I got rid of several thousands of pounds of my books. They were like a dead anchor in my life, a huge pain in the ass to move every few years. I love having a library of ebooks that are weightless, spaceless, and can be easily copied among different devices. I have de-DRM'd most of them and can have them in whatever format I want. It's a feeling of freedom. I think long and hard before I buy a paper-book now, and rarely do. As far as aesthetics, yes, it's true, reading a good paper book is a nice experience. I'm not sure it's better than reading a book on the Kindle app on my iPad Pro, though. Different, but both are nice. And the paper book experience has no analog to switching to a different book in your library when you're reading but not at home. Or to carrying your library with you wherever you go. There are other important things (e.g., searching) that paper books simply have no good way to do.