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They do, rocks, but they smell very different from new ones. Especially the leatherbound old ones. :-)

Thanks, uselessness! I did forget. *slaps forehead*

Books smell good when they're old, too. :)

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Books won't go away. They smell too good when they're new. :-)

C_b, somewhere on Wordie (can't remember exactly where--anyone?), a few of us had a discussion similar to this about words that have acquired new meanings now that computers are ubiquitous. I remember some Wordies saying that they never had to physically "cut" or "paste" anything while writing/editing--although I vividly remember doing so myself.

Isn't dwindle a lovely word?

Interesting thought. I agree with uselessness, but even if books go away they'll persist like ghosts in our language, unnoticed. The way we all know what it is to be "on tenterhooks", without having any idea what a tenterhook is.

Books will dwindle, but I doubt people will ever forget about them entirely...

I was wondering, last night, when in the course of human events this word will become as archaic and weird-sounding as, say, firkin. Will people one day wonder why those things you put on "favorite" lists in your web browser are called "bookmarks"? Will the Wordies of two centuries from now argue about its origins and etymology?