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I got my Nook and NOOKColor to be my bookshelf. Both devices have more than enough room to store my full paper collection of books if they were all ebooks (1500 books). I have been replacing paper with ebooks now for the last 6 months and am very happy to have the room back in my house.
My ebooks are backed up on my PCs and on "the cloud" as well as many of them on the B&N storefront. This makes me feel reasonably confident in trusting the electronic format.
So I keep all my books on my readers, every ebook I own is on both devices and I am very pleased with the organization the devices give me. Of course both are touch devices and have the ability to browse quickly through the library. The searching and sorting is also powerful on my readers.
Back in 1984 one of the first programs I wrote was a database for my library, I laboriously added ~200 books to the program and demonstrated in my 9th grade class. My books were browsable by author, genre, title, series, etc. Now every ebook I buy or save are automatically viewable by the same basic attributes. I don't have to buy a scanner and an ISBN database to make it manageable. I get it for free with my ereader. I get to have every book in my hands as well. I love it.
I re-read a lot, keeping all of my books with me is a joy and one of the big draws to ereaders for me.
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