Books are fantastic. I definitely would judge a person that has books for display only. It is easy to tell too. Books are not only novels and the best sellers

Books are fantastic. I definitely would judge a person that has books for display only. It is easy to tell too. Books are not only novels and the best sellers you find at airports. You can check a fact or a chapter of a textbook to learn or refresh some math problem. You can revisit your own notes on a margin of a novel. You can lend them. Books promote curiosity. While they can be superficial I think dismissing them like that is just anti-intellectual. Other posts in this thread say you can find the books online. As an example, I challenge anyone to find the Princeton Companion to Mathematics, a beautiful book, online. Not all content is always online, as some people think. We need books. Additionally, physical books are more difficult to destroy than digital books, can be smuggled and resold, and do not have changing conditions or price of access. They also do not care what is the prevalent opinion of something they contain. Just a block of wood waiting for us to read it. Now I feel like ordering more books today. Edit: added the additionally part and grammar.