Hence my comment about needing a backup strategy. If I go to a library to read a trade paperback from 1995, it's going to have been re-bound. And that's if the

Hence my comment about needing a backup strategy. If I go to a library to read a trade paperback from 1995, it's going to have been re-bound. And that's if the paper has survived. Trade-bound paperback books - which are usually price equivalent to ebooks - require intervention to remain usable for more than a few years. As for my own collection, I have no books from 1995 left. They've mostly fallen apart or been replaced with ebooks (which are still in great condition).