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Slightly offtopic but, one thing I've been thinking: If we can produce plastic that won't degrade for thousands of years, why not leverage this and make books from it?

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There are some books like that already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melcher_Media#DuraBooks

We do. But plastic is simply not as nice as paper in your hands. Thats why there is low demand for it.

But for a archive it might make sense to do this approach in a bigger style.

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