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I have 8 floor-to-ceiling bookcases filled with hardcovers, in many instances in double rows. I've been trying to figure out where I could put more bookshelves. Although I am buying a lot of ebooks (e.g., I bought 105 ebooks during eBook Week alone), I still regularly buy hardcovers. My hardcover purchases are primarily nonfiction, but I also buy hardcover fiction from favorite authors such as L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Harry Turtledove, and David Weber, to name just 3.
I'm at that age (in my mid 60s) where I bridge the worlds of print and ebook. I am not willing -- perhaps more accurately, not psychologically capable -- to go exclusively to ebooks; there are still too many unknowns in eBookville. I am willing (with only a few exceptions) to go virtually 100% ebook for fiction, but that's because I rarely reread fiction. I consider fiction to be read-once-throw-away books, so I'm not concerned about the unsettled nature of ebook standards.
I feel comfortable believing that 20 years from now I will be able to go to my library shelves and pick up one of my hardcovers and read it. Presumably my grandchildren will also have a clue as to what to do with a print book. I'm not so certain that the the ebook I buy today will be readable 20 years from now without having to be rebought. I suspect that if I were 20+ years younger, I would think differently (or perhaps not care), but I'm not, so I keep a foot in each world.
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