It might be a bit of "faster horse" desire but I'd love to have a VR library if the fidelity was good enough. I mean virtual 1:1 representations of books, that

It might be a bit of "faster horse" desire but I'd love to have a VR library if the fidelity was good enough. I mean virtual 1:1 representations of books, that I can make margin notes in etc. Then when I move I don't have to get rid of a load of books or back up heavy boxes and when I die it can be easily passed on and not a burden to those I leave it to. Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan series of sci-fi books have this concept of an imago machine, where a person has an implant that allows a compatible "not-quite-sentient" predecessor to live inside their head and give advice. And that predecessor would also have had an imago machine. It would be neat to have access to the libraries of my ancestors (or anyone I guess) once they become digital and are almost costless to store and duplicate. All the books they read and wanted to read, the notes they made, when in their life they read them etc.