@SalemsLot @dbattistella antiques, ok. It's a tiny fraction of books existing. And when I watch the anthropic film, these books don't look like Guttenberg Bibles.

@SalemsLot @dbattistella what do you do when your parents deceise and you get to own all their stuff including thousands of books. And you go to the second hand book stores and the all tell you they have no space and thus no offer.
This Problem arises currently, thousand fold. And when the baby boomers will die away, it will get even more so.
Can you get my point now?

@SalemsLot @dbattistella My experience is: they don't buy any more, at least only selected ones. Rest gets burnt.

@dbattistella Sure this is a massive amount of physical destruction.

On the other hand: how many private heritages of book collections are thrown into the garbage as the heirs don't have space and taste for physical books? This might be far more destruction collectively, and, I must admit, I can understand that people don't want the burdon to keep masses of old books which they probably won't read anyway.