[Katsunami]

Funny, I was thinking about this yesterday. I've sold my first e-reader because it wasn't a book, and because a lot of stuff wasn't yet available as an e-book in 2007.

Now, I've become used to my e-reader. I'm re-reading James Clavell's Shogun, which I also have as a hardcover. Yesterday I tried reading a chapter in the real book... and... I hated it. The book is huge, a 1000 page (edit: almost) behemoth, larger than any paperback I have, and it weighs a ton. To read for extended amounts of time in such a book, I need to put it down, or support it somehow, which I don't need to do with the Kindle.

I also have another book which I want to re-read, but of which there is no e-book available. I'm finding that I'm actively postponing this re-read, as this book is even bigger than Shogun... (I have this book twice, even: once as a gift, in a Dutch version, and once bought in English.)

The strange thing is, that, while I now prefer to read e-books, I still *like* books as objects. I can see myself selling all my paperbacks, and then buying hardcovers of books I really like to build a (modest) book case, but never reading them, as I'll have all of them as an e-book.