Comment by ccppurcell

I got rid of all novels and pop science books. They are fine to read on a kindle and rarely re-read. My physical books are textbooks and reference books (dictionaries, atlases).

I am a mathematician and I used to get a ton of mileage out of Google for research. I got really good at working out likely phrases other researchers would use for concepts that I encountered, and using Boolean operators to filter out pages with similar keywords. I think those days are over sadly. I think we will see a resurgence of personal libraries.