Too late for me now, but if I were just beginning to make up a collection of books I'd go for all digital. Ease of use is phenomenal already, and it's just going to get better. You can find any word you want in the text in an instant, and you can run a concordance analysis on "Bleak House" or "Moby Dick" with the stroke of a finger. Reading is going to get a whole lot more interesting; a very minor example would be those old children's books that you could read in different ways by going to different pages - they are coming out in eBook form now, and I would imagine that they will be far easier to use.
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