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I've saved lots and lots of shelf space!
However, if we look at cash, the calculations would be far too time consuming for the 9+ years I've been buying ebooks.
I can look at the past two and a half years of reading. In that time I've read 418 paid-for ebooks, at an average price of $3.11.
Now, some of those were ebooks of new-release hardbacks and some were ebooks of new-release trade paperbacks. Many were just ebooks of mass-market paperbacks.
But let's say $6 per book if I'd bought in paper. That comes to savings of $1200 or so. My previous ebook reader, a Kindle 2, cost me $367.85, and my current one cost approx $80.
And then there's the 38 free books - another $228 saved.
That makes total savings over the past two and a half years of very roughly $1000.
Of course, whether I would have bought that many paper books, rather than ebooks, is an interesting question.
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