I never said anything about throwing out books that haven't been digitized. And yes, you can get free internet access, but those research databases I mentioned

I never said anything about throwing out books that haven't been digitized. And yes, you can get free internet access, but those research databases I mentioned are not free to access. There a millions of "documents", to use your term, already indexed and categorized, with varying quality of searchability. Let's not skip over the main point I meant to emphasize: librarians. I get why people in tech believe that they have all the tools and skills to do their own research. They don't value librarians for the expertise they have, even though just getting an entry level librarian job requires more education than most programming jobs.