Books that seriously need to be republished

Cecil and Cecil, a Peer--two very good recreations of the Regency era by Mrs. Gore (a lady novelist of the mid 1800's, who wrote a long list of so-called 'silver fork' novels); much of her work is unreadable by today's standards, but these two hard-to-come by books are witty, and at their best, somewhat reminiscent of Jane Austen.

 Sounds as if the author was going for the 'Stephen King Memorial Massive Tome Award'. But seriously, I really hate this whole trend of making older books increasingly readily available only in ebook versions. No problem with digitally archiving these works, but recently it seems more and more as if they can only be obtained in a format that I personally find distracting and clunky to read--not to mention frequently difficult to access, and sometimes pretty costly.

Re. the novel itself: I think I've heard the title, but know nothing really about it. (The Wikipedia entry is pretty brief, and doesn't give much critical assessment.) Since you recommended it for this list, it must be a good read; is it worth the time investment for a work that large?  If so I'd be tempted to consider forking up the bucks for a hard copy (I'm somewhat addicted to large reads), as there's no way I'd try cracking a book that size on the internet or via a Kindle-type thing.

PS--if you're into novels detailing small-town American life in a generational manner (this seems to have been something of a thing during the Forties and Fifties in American novel writing), there's another hard-to-find book that deserves reprinting that you might be interested in: King's Row by Henry Bellamann (yes, it's the book that was the basis for the Ronald Reagan film, but the book is definitely better); although the novel has definite 'pot-boiler' aspects to it--some have referred to it as the direct precursor of Peyton Place--it also has some interesting psychological slants, explored through the lead character's choice to enter the then-new field of psychiatric medicine. Not nearly as lengthy as Sironia, but it's still a good-sized read and pretty much worth it, IMO.