I switched to digital books, almost totally, several years ago. That's when my bookshelf stopped growing. I could no longer display my erudition (or lack of it)

I switched to digital books, almost totally, several years ago. That's when my bookshelf stopped growing. I could no longer display my erudition (or lack of it) to the world. My Kindle collection is long but no one in their right mind would want to scroll through it. It does not have, as the author points out, the immediacy and tacit tactile interactivity of a library shelf. Still, out of a sense of responsibility to sustainability and the welfare of the young, I have stayed with the non-physical version, with a deep sense of regret about the loss of touch-me, feel-me reading matter.