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I've always been an inveterate book-buyer.
But I admit I splurge more impulsively on e-books because if it turns out I don't really like them, at least they don't take up physical space. I do buy a lot of paper books, but I'm considerably pickier about them and mainly get artbooks, reference stuff, graphic novels, foreign language works, and severely out-of-print sf/fantasy stuff, often after having seen and sampled it at the library or after dithering over the Look Inside feature where available.
I'm a bit more willing to take a chance on/throw in a small amount of money to support a more marginally enjoyable "I'd read this at the library but wouldn't really want this taking up room on my shelf" author in e-book format if the price is low enough than I would on a paper copy at the same cost.
There's a kind of "out of sight, out of mind" thing going on, I think, where I can easily sweep the results under the rug to get them out of the way (something that's harder to do with an 11x17 coffee-table book annotating the symbolism of every little background detail of the Mona Lisa piece by piece).
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