Too many books, too little time. At least it helps my kids:

Poking through physical artifacts (like books), as I did with those Beatles records, is archival and curatorial; it forces you to examine each object slowly, perhaps sample it and come across a serendipitous discovery.

Scrolling through file names on a device, on the other hand, is what we do all day long, often mindlessly, in our quest to find whatever it is we’re already looking for as rapidly as possible. To see “The Beatles” in a list of hundreds of artists in an iTunes database is not nearly as arresting as holding the album cover for “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

Link to full article:

Ware, Teddy. “Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves – The New York Times.” New York Times, December 7, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/fashion/our-bare-shelves-our-selves.html.