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I collect books, buy books (hardcover), and now have added ebooks to my life.
I buy 2 types of pbooks: collectibles (e.g., a first edition in fine condition of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, which is my favorite) and books that I both want to read and want to hand down to my grandchildren. Fortunately, my wife indulges me in this.
What I don't want to happen with my grandchildren is for them to lose or miss the experiences of reading and holding/smelling/feeling a pbook. I fear, especially after reading the frontpage article in today's NY Times about cellnovels, that increasingly we are becoming a world where the extent of reading is a text message, and I'd like my descendants to know a complete sentence.
The bad thing for me about books of all types is the amount I spend on them. I could go on a couple of month-long vacations if I simply stopped buying for a year.
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