You just speak like the Scriptorium monks who rejected the printed books because each manuscript (written by hand) was unique in each volume, the cover, the shape, the typography, the layout and the original artistic unique illustrations. To say what you say and apply it to paperbacks is quite surprising and you do not seem to be doing a lot of research that implies the Internet. Then 80% of what we find and need is in digital form, ebooks, or articles, or open access digital journals, etc, and if we want a paper copy, we can always print it. Your hatred for ebooks is just a piece of bigotry because today at least 80% of all we read is in digital form on a screen. Books, or ebooks, are not the only forms of what we read, and when a book is out of print and the closest library copy is several thousand miles away, we can only access it if there exists a digital version available on the internet. In other words you are thinking in hostile reaction to modern digital reading habits and this is reactionary, at least very ultra-conservative.