https://medium.com/@Jamiesgt/blu-rays-and-their-special-features-769f78bbf66f
Although this article is from 2019, its just as important as ever. Of course digital streaming and e-books are quick and convenient, its still good to have a tactile copy of some things. So while a digital library is great, having a hard copy of something is still very important. Especially in the era of Cancel+Culture.
There is always the potential for public access data to be sent down the Memory_hole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole#Origins
"Fahrenheit 451 is a computer strategy game released in 1984 based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(video_game)
"The captain lectures him about the books and pulls a last book from Montag's coat, for which Montag kills him with the flamethrower. He escapes and finds the book people, where he views his "capture" on television, staged to keep the masses entertained and because the government doesn't want it to be known that he is alive. Montag selects a book to memorise, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, and becomes one of the book people." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film)#Plot
As long as there are free thinking people, various books and information can be remembered. This is still a good idea in this digital age because the memory+hole is always waiting to destroy more information.
So while Ebooks and digital archives can be great in general, there is always the potential for some items to become digital kindling.
https://www.anyrecover.com/deleted-files-recovery-data/recover-deleted-books-from-kindle
A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz touches upon the theme of a global war and massive loss of life and information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz#Recurrence_and_cyclical_history , https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/science-fiction-classic-still-smolders
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/best-free-books-for-kindle
https://digitalbooktoday.com/free-kindle-books-amazon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook#Archival_storage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Collection_of_user_reading_data
Data-mining and mass-marketing is the name of the game.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2019/08/tvs-tech-and-marketing.html
