> Books are a classic thing that should just be digitized and the originals sold off. I'd generally agree though thinking it thru - there have been instances i

> Books are a classic thing that should just be digitized and the originals sold off. I'd generally agree though thinking it thru - there have been instances in which researchers have found hidden ink/pages hidden under pictures and other such discoveries that would not be possible with a simple digital scan. Xray's and other spectral light scans on-top of the visual spectrum RGB scans may be a solution but that is not at a level for today's scanning of such works and costly already without that step. So mixed feelings and in general, yes they should be scanned - but as a reason to offload the original - that has some grey area's that would need addressing.