> Old printed books will be the equivalent of the sunken ships they cut up for uncontaminated steel today. It's not so much contamination, but value drift. Di

> Old printed books will be the equivalent of the sunken ships they cut up for uncontaminated steel today. It's not so much contamination, but value drift. Did you ever try reading Shakespeare without commentary? So many things of that language are no longer colloquial. Maybe generated text can recover that and train us. Or imagine the "dark tongue" from Paul Kingsnorth' "The Wake" to have been real: we've come quite a bit in expressiveness.