Needless to say, I'm not the interviewee
I fear that I have never felt the slightest urge to experience a "book apocalypse-in-miniature." (Obviously, given the recent explosion in the domestic bookcase population.) At the personal level, I enjoy having lots of books around: books make for good company, not to mention good answering machine messages. At the professional level, though, I couldn't even begin to do my work if I tried, like Scott's interviewee, to rely on our campus library (monographs on nineteenth-century theology are not its strong suit), GoogleBooks (monographs on nineteenth-century theology are not yet its strong suit), or Amazon (monographs on nineteenth-century theology are not necessarily accessible via a9 search). For that matter, I rarely come across quotations from any sort of relevant monograph online, contrary to the interviewee's experience--recent work relating to the history of the novel or to narrative theory, for example, is as spottily covered online as recent work on nineteenth-century theology.