Not that this impacts on your overall point particularly, but time for pedants' corner: "The smallest [hard drive] size readily available is 1TB. That’s 1024GB." Sadly disk manufacturers don't use base 2 arithmetic, so this isn't quite true. Your 1TB drive will only hold ~1 million books, not ~1.05 million. And either way, I'd call that slightly more than half the county's collection, rather than 'slightly shy' of all of it. I've never heard anyone say they missed the smell of paper books before, but I am starting to find the lack of ease of 'flicking back/through' in an ebook to be actually quite annoying. It's hard to skip back '20 or so' pages to show someone a thing you read earlier, or skip to the right place in an ebook to find that bit you remember the context but not page number of. I have to admit that this is not a use case I would have realised I had so frequently until it was being thwarted!