When I’m in a library, or perhaps a Goodwill store, and see some woefully out-of-date volume (that 1991 copy of “Let’s Go: Chicago”), I think about how it survi

When I’m in a library, or perhaps a Goodwill store, and see some woefully out-of-date volume (that 1991 copy of “Let’s Go: Chicago”), I think about how it survives because it takes work to remove it. Multiply this by the number of physical copies that can be scattered about, and it just seems more intrinsically stable than a purely digital work. Sure, we could be making infinite digital copies, but it seems like so far we’re cool with 2 (the original, and internet archive)