Quite to the contrary, after recently becoming interested in history, I have found scans of rare first edition works on Archaeology on the web that no library w

Quite to the contrary, after recently becoming interested in history, I have found scans of rare first edition works on Archaeology on the web that no library within 500 miles of me had. The web cannot provide equal weight to old and new stuff alike. All media in any age will have a recency bias. The web makes it much much easier for one to access old books. The Kindle (and similar products) will make it easier (by building central repositories and making it possible to monetize the resale of very old books in one more way)