I've plenty of books in my library published after 2010 and have purchased since 2010 many books with a pub date before 2010. That is, I've bought plenty of books in the last 3 years regardless of the books pub date. Books are not just about information searching or retrieval. That's what Wikipedia and Google do well. Books are IHO about one's relation with information and ideas. While I'm grateful for e-formats, these render the experience of knowledge gathering and integration differently. The ability to sit with a paper book is a different experience from that of reading a PDF or electronically based form--the cracked spine, the marginalia, the dog-earing, the staining from whatever else you might be doing--becomes fully integrated into and inseparable from the reading experience. Since the big e-push, I purchase physical books specifically to promote the industry and to ensure my unencumbered ability to share them with others. The ability to peek into books via electronic formats have often led to a purchase so I think there is room for both forms, although I fear physical books will go the way of records...

I have several books from pre 2010. a few are even pre 1900 and very early 1900.
books are one of those items that should be protected and kept. not just to be thrown out one day to make room for a small computer tower with 45 million books stored on one hard drive.
I will take a paper book over a pdf any day.

and no, I am NOT an old fart. mid twenties thank you.

It says, post-2010. Not pre.

library provides a lot of books. where can I find a lot of good books that the bookstore when I was little difficult to find. it is useful in the current session

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Last time I went into my public library was about two weeks ago, when I picked up the guide books on Brittany that I'd reserved online. And I've spent the past couple of weeks using them to plan trips and places to visit whilst in the area. Didn't want to buy them and certainly didn't want to download a guide which would have necessitated taking some sort of electronic device out with me each day and making sure it was recharged every night. And whilst I was in the public library, I also spent some time browsing and found a rather useful book on networking ... would probably never have come across this in a bookshop or online. Libraries aren't just about going in and getting something specific, one of their greatest strengths is serendipity.

The physical book collection that my wife and I had at home WELL exceeded 5,000 around the year 2005. Since then we have been pitching books and purchasing Kindle books instead. I estimate that we have given out 2,000 physical books at this point. Since 2010 I have purchased about 10 physical books and she has bought about 20. These are mainly books for which a Kindle edition is not available.

Very interesting article. I can say that I personally I hated the idea of e-books to begin with, but I've found the ease of access to be too great to ignore. Being able to acces my own personal library instantly on my phone has me reading more now than I have in years.

As the founder of a library-centric startup (http://www.libramatic.com/), one of our biggest fears is the decline of libraries. The internet grows bigger and bigger every day. I don't see any reason why libraries can't be moved more and more onto the web. Our product mashes libraries and the web together and this just comes to show that the internet can /help/ libraries tackle their day to day issues. I think that libraries are slowly moving into the ebook space and as a result we have to move with them, allowing for ebook integration etc.

Personally, I don't think libraries are going away anytime soon.