Neon’s A Doll A Day… Again (2020)

[Alliecat]

I am glad e-books didn't slow down "real" books. If I was going to sail around the world and couldn't pack much, I'd want an e-book library, I guess. Otherwise, forget it. I love real books.
I was thinking of all the content that is only created digitally; some of it is crap but some might be hidden treasure, and it would be nice if it was more permanent.
It is nice that older books can be digitized though... I have a seaman's manual on hurricanes from the 1800s. They were just starting to understand how hurricanes worked, so it was interesting to read the "theories". Crossing the Atlantic, I had a chance to browse through a "real" edition of it, then found a digitized later revision afterwards at home. (Also in my Google-Books finds from that research period is a surgical manual from the 1790s. Eek. The fact that they were trying to do cataract surgery at that time is horrifying to me (although the section on trepanning was useful ))
Cheap accessible paperbacks... yeah, it's true that some are badly produced and don't last at ALL. Insert long rant about how almost no one knows how to properly open a book spine nowadays. I show people now & then at the library. I've met maybe 2 or 3 people, ever, who already knew. So many books get thrown away from our collection because the kids are hard on them and nobody's opened them properly. Pages falling out in no time. I seem to be the book-repair person; they'll leave them for me to try to salvage, some of the time. I hate to see them thrown away. So wasteful.

Lizzie looks like she's got a huge book full of great and magical wisdom there.