> the database that holds them?

But that's completely useless if there's not the software and hardware infrastructure to make the contents of that database readable and searchable. That will be really tough to do.

> and the vast databases of books will be duplicated over and over and over again.

That doesn't happen automatically. Instead of librarians, it will be sys-admins scp-ing shit all the time. And they will totally accidentally delete entire archives at some point. Or forget, and the actual storage medium will degrade.

> I'm bullish on the cloud, if you didn't notice. :)

hehe :)