Books that printed but not digitised

I never believe that print books will be one day out of date, not when ebooks started to prevail and sold more than print books on Amazon, not when Boaders bursted, not when Sydney Uni and NSW Uni changed their university libraries into mess digital lounge.

Of course I admit that print books look like it's been losing ground gradually. However, human beings are not stupid. The civilization, regardless western or eastern, native or foreign, will be carried out by all means, including printed words, literature and illustrations. So the sliding towards ebooks will eventually halt at somewhere. Human beings a lot wiser than we realise.

Yes, technologies advance from time to time. Up to now, a single device can carry hundreds even thousand books. That's great. But how long can we preserve all those digital formats? One thing is for sure, printing, is the only format, doesn't require electricity power, nor a device, for reading. I had a CD ROM which was bought 10 years ago, with 10 years worth of a particular journal on it. But it's no longer readable because the old OS for opening it, no longer existed. So how can we so sure that one day there will be no print books around?

Digitising books is not a bad thing. It increases ways of info access dramatically. But print books will always co-exist alongside of ebooks, I'm quite positive about it. So I remain optimistic and hopeful.