So I just spent a week moving 60 linear feet of books and I'm done with dead trees. Neil Gaiman has a quote that goes something like "Books are like sharks. There's nothing better at being a shark than a shark. There's nothing better at being a book than a book. But a Kindle can make a very reasonable replacement for a bookshelf."

I'm probably going to get rid of my dead tree books and replace them with PDFs or text files (thank you Project Gutenberg for making plain text available.) I am suspicious of the Amazon Ecosystem and find text or pdfs read on a modern tablet preferable. Do not get me started about epubs. How can professional organizations make epubs that are so wrongly formatted.

Which is to say... I will buy your print book, as long as it also comes with a PDF or text version.

But I am very happy to see there's a corner of the world where non-trash, non-ai-slop is still valued. I only wish there was a happy medium between printed books and non drm digital documents for litzines.

Unlike Kindle, Amazon can’t shutdown your bookshelf

Kindle and Amazon are the same company.

You should probably read it as "Amazon can shut down your kindle but not your bookshelf"