No. ALWAYS keep the originals. Digitize them, yes, but keep the originals.

I say this as someone who was a professional librarian (and part-time archivist) for better than 40 years.

In fact, it would be well if everything on stored floppy discs, etc. were to be printed out. Magnetic data has a way of erasing itself over time.

"Perfect binding", Stilly? You mean that stuff that cracks and then the pages fall out? The process that substitutes glue for real binding? Tsk, tsk.