Do you also promise to put your iPad in Shaimos when it becomes unusable? If its full of Torah then it needs to be buried with Shaimos
No, I won’t, and no it doesn’t need to be.
But so what?
When your CD with a song with pesukim on it becomes unusable, do you put it in Shaimos? How about your MP3 player with shiurim on it? Or how about your tape cassettes? Or the DVD with a video of a shiur?
(Hint: the halacha is pretty clear. The answer for all of the above is “no.”)
Yet, in none of those cases have I ever heard anyone give an “oy vey” about that. In none of those cases did I ever hear anyone say “oh, how horrible, they’re learning Torah without paper and ink.”
So, again, I pose the question to you. Why do you feel that dead trees and ink are a bona fide requirement for Torah learning to have any holiness or value?
The Wolf