Unless you’re reading a book on carpentry, farming or a Chilton’s guide to your 1998 Chevy Lumina.
Books, the paper kind, ARE HERE TO STAY.
Actually, acid-based paper is not very durable. Check out a fifty-year old paperback and see how brittle are the pages. True, it can be archived, but it takes some expertise.
All that said, I myself LOVE books. Here I sit in my home office surrounded by shelves and boxes overflowing with books. I have a Nat Geo collection that goes back to about 1939.
I posted the article for discussion and debate purposes. It has done that, LOL!