[ATDrake]

I'm really cheap when it comes to e-books (mainly because I view them as being essentially disposable and often with embarrassingly shoddy quality control for the prices regularly asked), but splurge quite a bit on paper books (mind you, I buy artbooks, specialty non-fiction/reference, deluxe edition-with-extras graphic novels and such).

So it balances out.

But I think part of the resistance to paying very much for e-books vs. paper is due to the uncertainty and fluctuations surrounding file format availability ascendancy/decline and DRM-lock-in and other things which anyone who's been e-reading for more than a couple of years has already seen fairly major changes in.

So e-books just tend to give off this feeling of "will I still be able to easily access/read this in 20 years?" impermanence that paper books don't have.