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Originally Posted by digiSara
I don't tend to keep my fiction books after I read them, so saving bookshelf space isn't a huge plus for me - although saving money is!
The one thing I do miss is brick & mortar stores - I find that the online stores aren't great for browsing and I tend to not remember author's names, but just approximately where they are in the alphabet so I go to that shelf and find them in a real store (although I can see that Calibre will help me remember what I've read in the future!). So I do go into stores still just to browse and flip through books, before going home and buying.
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It took me a while, but now I select almost all my books in the digital world instead of visiting bookstores. There are very few bookstores anyway whose selection is worth a trip, because they actually select quality books and not just what sells. But now I mostly don't bother visiting them, and rely on informations I find on the Net: Amazon reviews, LibraryThing, MR, and rarely newspaper reviews.