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Clearly, many of our members live in multi-multi-room mansions with unlimited space for their HC, Trade and MMPB versions of series. Perhaps some have a "Deceased Authors Series - Trade - A-F" rooms ...
Once upon a time, I went through this who issue with classical music -- LPs to CDs to mp3s; collecting Beethoven quartets by this group or that, fussing if it were time to buy into the series when you'd only yet recorded the Razoumovskys ... and do I buy the reissues? and the re-re-issues? And the "improved" sound? etc etc
Eventually I decided that there were a handful of LPs I liked as "things" -- great art cover, or special attachments to a person I shared the disc with ... beyond that, what matters is the content.
With books I have no such qualms. I have never particularly liked HCs, although they have a place for display and picture books or formal reference (like "Grove's") or when they are signed by an author in a numbered edition I especially admired. Trade paper are something like LPs -- the cover art is a thing itself but I don't really treasure many and don't want the clutter. At the very first opportunity, I am happy to dispose of the lion's share of my books so long as the one's I have any future interest in reading are available ebooks or are likely to be.
At the risk of agreeing completely with Kali on anything, "All that matters is the content". And for me, that's the words, not the container or cover art.
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