"pyotr filipivich" wrote

| One of my concerns is that while I have ~15,000 books, the vast
| majority of them are e-books of some sort.

I've been dealing with that lately. I don't like
to read things on a computer. But I have some
PDFs that I can't get otherwise. I just recently
bought a private publication that comes only as
PDF. It's a pain in the neck. There's no sitting back,
no spatial memory of page content, no flipping
backward and forward, no casually picking it up
off the shelf for a quick refresher read.
Printing, though, is way behind in terms of
technology. A printed page looks better than it
used to, but it's prohibitively expensive and time
consuming. I print almost nothing other than business
contracts and receipts. Even receipts I now usually
just send as PDFs. Then I print out a single copy for
my own records.

| So, nothing to sort through, nothing to look at, just all the
| pictures, books and music on a computer drive, and the heirs can just
| junk it all in one fell swoop, because the computer is obsolete and
| running an antique version of Windows. Never mind if they might have
| grabbed some of the books, photos and albums if they had been held
| physically in their hands.
|

And you'll want to at least convert them to
formats that are not commercial.