I prefer print books to ebooks, so I always appreciate patrons of all ages with the same preference, even if they say it almost apologetically. Good on that girl for really owning it. There are many reasons in favor of print as a superior technology, chief among them for me being that I prefer my reading not to be data-mined by tech conglomerates.

Circulation in public libraries is trending downward across the board, but study space is in demand, at least in my library. Yet with e-titles plateauing, we might just be in a nice pocket of equilibrium, where you can choose several ways of consuming books.