This, unfortunately, is one reason why there's such a healthy trade in older used books. There are other interesting reasons to flee to old books. For example,

This, unfortunately, is one reason why there's such a healthy trade in older used books. There are other interesting reasons to flee to old books. For example, the 11th edition of Britannica for encyclopedia aficionados (reputedly the seed from which Wikipedia grew), 1913 Webster's (mentioned on HN in the last few weeks/months), and some works that people don't want to print today (the best example of this I know is Foreign Children by RL Stevenson, which tends to silently disappear for entirely understandable [0] reasons.) [0]https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/stevenson/foreign_children.html https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/stevenson/foreign_chi...