I'd advise people just to get an iPad Pro and get electronic versions of these books. Makes for an eternal and ever growing bookshelf, and has been much cheaper to maintain than my previous physical library.
That's the received wisdom, yeah. The party line etc etc. I am not so sure though.
One has to factor in the possibility and ease of losing the device, or rights to the content that I have backed up on the cloud. Way too many people have the ability to intervene between me and the content. I appreciate the convenience of not having to move shit ton of bleached and pulped wood, but then I have to worry less about DRM, some raid in New Zealand, govt ordered deactivation of device, reading something that powers that be may not be to pleased about
I would like to read what the fuck I want with less power on others to influence that.
I find it much easier to recall details of material I've read in a physical textbook rather than an e-book. The unique cover, weight, texture, etc. of a physical volume provides more context cues that flag the experience of reading as noteworthy, and thus as something that tends to stick out relative to other memories.
