I used to read lots of books when I was a child, between 5 and 10 each week.
At the age of twelve, this changed heavily: going to high school left me with very spare time, so I read very little. And it hasn't changed until I bought my first Kindle (2, I sold it, now I have a DX and 3 is on it's way as well as a PocketBook 302).
I found myself reading like being ten again, and spending lots of money on ebooks, within the last months I spent more money than in 5 years before! No that might look strange at first, but I you consider my "situation", you might understand.
Born and raised in Belgium, my native tongue being Dutch, I only read dutch books, translated or original. 15 years ago, I moved to Germany, but German not being my native tongue, I never felt interested in reading german translations - took me 10 years to come over synchronised movies! I still don't like them, but I can watch them now.
Most bestselling books in Germany are international bestsellers as well (Cody McFadyen, The Hunger Game, ...) but even PBs were extremely expensive to buy - and to be honest, the cheap PB-Editions mostly look akward, bad paper, bad printing. So I only occasionally bought some books by German Authors, but never read that much.
Now, finally, I'm rediscovering one of my childhood pleasures, and best of all: not translated but original as written. I must admit, that I miss some content (remember: native language being dutch), but with the build in dictionary (i rarely use it) and contextual understanding, I get 99 plus percent, so it's no big deal.
My enthusiasm lead me to buing a PocketBook 302 as well, 'cause I now don't want to wait any longer for Amazon to open a german Kindle Store (not even sure if this will happen) - so I can soon read the German epubs (without converting, and less reading pleasure because of formatting issues) - books I would not have bought or read without rediscovering my childhood passion, latter as a result from buying a Kindle...
So I can conclude with my answer to your question: in my case: NO, I spend way more money on books now
