[oliyoung]

> At some point you just have to move to Ebooks.

This is a parallel story for me to vinyl / streaming for music

There are some books and albums I want as physical artefacts, their aesthetic and tactile presence in my world means something more than just the content, you're right, the smell, the art, their feel

Then there are some that are _just_ content, they get streamed and bought as ebooks for just convienence and consumption

[carlosjobim]

That's just fetishizing a mass produced object. Books have never been about the physical object, they have always been about what is written.

It's like guys buying fancy cars and motorbikes to polish them in the garage, rather than riding them.

And same thing frankly for vinyl collecting vs digital music files.