Well, Alexander, personally, I agree with either of those two approaches but it's Kris' "baby" and he probably saw both our arguments and will decide what he likes best.
(As for the leaving books unopened for long - same here. The other night, I read a book till 2:30 am because I just "had" to finish it
And, as you know, I'm a staunch supporter of using the cloud to store ebooks instead keeping tons of ebooks in the ebook reader.)