So this is how I go broke

Thanks to Google:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.

As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under five minutes. The new service is an acknowledgment by the Internet search leader that not everyone wants their books served up on a computer or an electronic reader...

I already have a filing cabinet full of Google books that I have printed off from PDF, three-hole-punched, and bound, so doubtless the appearance of a machine that would bind them for me into paperbacks* will save me a lot of space. And I really can't complain about getting a custom-printed, brand new paperback for $8.

But I seriously wonder if it might make more sense to just spring $100k for the machine.

And another $100k for a library wing addition to the house...

* Unfortunately, hardcovers - which I vastly prefer for many reasons - cost about 3x what a paperback costs, at least custom printed. That fact does not make me love paperbacks.