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even if we archive everything, hundreds of years from now all of “the worlds information” could very well be unusable and unreadable for a variety of factors(no one remembers how to deal with the file formats, EMP, bit rot). books however will continue to work just fine as they have for thousands of years

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If we're talking that long of a timescale, how long does your typical book these days actually last? I'm no expert, but it makes me wonder how long consumer paper actually lasts. Reasonable(?) search result below.

https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-paper-to-dec...

adding paper to a compost pile will give different results than keeping a book stored in the proper conditions

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