As more and more things in life -- buying movie tickets, ordering food, watching TV shows -- shift from physical to digital, it looks like reading books in libraries are making the same move.

According a Library Journal survey, e-book spending in libraries all around the country has increased from 1 percent to 7 percent. Even though, according to Good E-Reader, libraries buy e-books for a significantly higher price than your average consumer due to the fear of publishers of giving free book access to a virtually unlimited number of people, this has not deterred librarians across the country from bumping up spending on e-books instead of print copies. 

Libraries, particularly those that have started to get new acquisitions through digital, have gotten a lot of flak for this move. Even though print purists have revolted and protested, there is likely very little they can do to stop the so-called "evolution" process. With a limited budget for acquisitions and the numerous advantages of e-books, it is likely to continue.

According to the Washington Post, in the District of Columbia alone, almost a million print copies of books have disappeared since 2009. This trend is similar for states all across the union. Budgets for print all across the country have dropped, with only 59 percent of acquisitions being print books, as opposed to 67 percent in the past.

This is not the only thing that libraries have changed in recent years. The "evolution" of the classic library also includes things such as allowing mild noise, creating lunch spaces, and holding areas to assist programmers and entrepreneurs. Most libraries have facilities like these - an effort to make libraries still relevant to a tech-obsessed generation.

The transformation of a library from a print-filled research space to a community hub is something many purists are not comfortable with. Most still want to preserve the library as a space purely for information distribution and research.

However, many people -- even the younger population -- still find that a print book is the best way to go.

A survey cites that only 5 percent of millennials actually prefer reading e-books to print books. Most people still say that the feeling of reading a print book is totally different from reading an e-book. With that statistic, it is unlikely that most will see conventional information hubs like libraries shaft their entire print collections for e-books.

It is likely, however, that most libraries will have considerable e-book collections in the next few years.