Saving ourselves

Nearly everyone has a favorite book, or a book that for some possibly transitional period of their life, led the way. That's why books are different from other commodities -- they actually save people's (spiritual) lives. So what about all those books that have done this for generations past. Are all of them inappropriate, useless, not applicable? Probably not. Thus backlists of currently out-of-print books can be valuable. But would someone just want an ebook of a lifesaver book, probably not. That's where ebooks and print books go together like peas and carrots. Get the ebook and then order a printed copy. Read Publisher's Weekly's fascinating look at out-of-print books revisiting as ebooks. Basically about half the out-of-print books studied had come back as ebooks. That's a good start at saving ourselves. Quoting: "Looking through PW’s archives at the top 25 bestselling books of both 1992 and 1982 in fiction and nonfiction (100 titles total), we found 56 books that had Kindle e-book editions."