as i'm a 50-year-old man in the process of moving thousands of books and large bookcases from my former place of residence into a house that will hardly - or rather, just won't - hold them all, i can't help thinking that there's something to be said for replacing them with a little device. course i would mourn various aspects of the book, having spent my whole life in an environment built out of them. but, you know, what the hell.