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Overall the ebook reader experience is quite good I think, but I have to say that I do still miss the paper - even the big heavy tome. With a paper book there is an experience that goes with the medium. An experience of passing from the beginning to the end that is so literal with a paper book. Many of my favourite books get purchased in hardcover and so there is also a sense of "special" that goes with reading them (the very awkward size and weight imparts its own element to the experience). With paperbacks there is that constant feel in your hands that varies from book to book. Each book becomes a friend, each different with its own history.
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Yes, I understand what you mean here.
But you know what? I've found, after almost a year with a reader, that when I open it or finish a book on it and go back to the front, that I have a feeling of being 'in' my library with it now. That all the books I love are there, and just as when you open a book and lose yourself in it and the physical book goes away, when I open my reader the physical reader goes away, and I 'feel' I'm in my own cozy library. I wish DecaGirl would make a skin with a fireplace, lol!