@theducks - earlier this year I had the luxury of doing that for a short time while I was away on holiday, it was brilliant to just roll from one book to the next on my Kindle and I pretty much averaged a book a day.
Since I got back I have been looking at the backlog of hundreds of paperback books in my bookshelves and trying to work through those before I let myself go back to my Kindle. Despite the fact that I actually enjoy reading them on my Kindle more and find it much more convenient, be it lazing in the sun, holding one handed on the tube or in remembering my place when I fall asleep! I just feel guilty about not reading these shiny spanky new books sitting there.
And sometimes I end up doing both - for instance a week or two ago I wanted to start reading the Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb, having read the Assassins trilogy years ago (both of which I own in paperback and now ebooks too). I read the first chapter of the paperback and then decided I wanted to re-read the original trilogy to refresh my memory of the characters. Rather than dig through my boxes of "read" books that are stored away I just raced through the Kindle versions. I switched back to the paperbacks for the Taweny trilogy to assuage the guilt of not just continuing on with the Kindle.
It has got me wondering about the remainder of my bookshelf now though. Do I continue to work through the paper versions, when I also own them electronically? My expenditure on ebooks as it was on paperbacks is substantial. I am one of those people who likes to have "all" the books written by an author I like. And there are others on my shelf where I bought just the first in a (big) series, waiting to see if I would like it before committing to the rest, which I now own complete in ebooks. There are books by my favourite authors which I haven't read for years, and the temptation to just re-read an entire catalog for an author where I no longer recall which I have read previously.
If there was an easy way to just get rid of all my paperbacks I would. A bit like the hundreds of DVDs and CDs all boxed up lining the hallway - if someone could just come collect them all and take it all out of sight and mind it would be a far less cluttered flat now I have everything digitally. Selling them individually is more effort than it is worth.
So yes, I absolutely LOVE to read. I just end up reading far later at night than I used to... And less time reading technical books since I am banging my head with plguins and Python instead. I agree with Kovid - Calibre is making me dumber too
