my bookshelf contains tons of books, hardcore zines and vinyl - I wouldn't have it any other way. The chance of me finishing reading a pdf/ebook of the smalltal

my bookshelf contains tons of books, hardcore zines and vinyl - I wouldn't have it any other way. The chance of me finishing reading a pdf/ebook of the smalltalk 80 manual from front to back including the appendix is slim to none - however order it for 3 bucks off ebay and keep it around and with in a month or so I've read the entire thing at my leisure. On top of that When people come over and I start ranting about programming I have physical implements to push my point - "look at this book!!" I almost scream as I reach for the sacred yellowed tome, "It's from the 80s and it's more relevant than 90% of everything that's come since!" Also the chance of lending someone a book or record and having a meaningful discourse follow from that incident (during/post lending) is much greater than just saying "check out w3c" or "listen to minor threat on myspace".