Actual physical books are still pretty good; I can't speak for other countries, but the county in the UK I live in (as is common in all UK counties, I believe)

Actual physical books are still pretty good; I can't speak for other countries, but the county in the UK I live in (as is common in all UK counties, I believe) will fetch books for you from anywhere else in the county for fifty pence a pop, and if they haven't got it in county the inter-library loans turn out to be astonishingly fast and remarkably good value. I have requested some quite obtuse books over the past year and they've managed them all so far; coming from the British Library in London, a university maths library in Leeds, a university library in Exeter, somewhere I couldn't even tell where it came from, and so on. If you like reading, and you don't absolutely need the convenience of the book weighing very little and being quite small (i.e. an eReader of some kind - I'm a fan of old Sony models), physical books from a national library network are still really good.