[HN Gopher] Essay: The Digital Death of Collecting
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       Essay: The Digital Death of Collecting
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-09-26 03:22 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | p-rescription wrote:
       | I switched to digital books, almost totally, several years ago.
       | That's when my bookshelf stopped growing. I could no longer
       | display my erudition (or lack of it) to the world. My Kindle
       | collection is long but no one in their right mind would want to
       | scroll through it. It does not have, as the author points out,
       | the immediacy and tacit tactile interactivity of a library shelf.
       | Still, out of a sense of responsibility to sustainability and the
       | welfare of the young, I have stayed with the non-physical
       | version, with a deep sense of regret about the loss of touch-me,
       | feel-me reading matter.
        
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