Sarah’s Reviews > The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future > Status Update

In 2009 he says, “Today we rely on digitization , even though digital copies are more vulnerable than microfilm to decay and obsolescence.”
In 2023 I think that is an extreme exaggeration.

I feel like I wasted my time reading the first two (of three) sections…. It’s basically a detailed description of the author’s desire to disseminate academic info. for researchers via e-books… in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Twenty years later it’s virtually obsolete.

He appears to be focused primarily in academics and research libraries.

War of public vs. private use of books on the Internet: Line clearly drawn pro-open access and anti-private interest.
I predict that much of the first two sections of this will be mostly obsolete.