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Agreed both have their advantages but I am not worried about being able to read them years down the road. There are ways you can deal with that if you want to. It is no different then moving from a CD to an MP3 to whatever the cloud to whatever form music takes. Once the DRM is gone, you have the ability to reformat the document into what ever the latest and greatest is or even a PDF which seems to go every where.
As for the rest of the list (shrugs). Too each their own. I bought an e-reader because I did not want to purge books and needed a new bookshelf. The FAA is going to allow battery operated devices to be used on a plane at all phases of flight soon so that is no biggie. How many people have antique books? Really?
I read hard back books to my 13 month old son. He will be reading paper books for a while but will move into ebooks as he hits chapter books. There is no reason he cannot read both. I strongly prefer ebooks so I don't see myself returning to a paper book any time soon.
I do agree that it is nice to find a books with a hand written inscription in them. The memory is precious. I don't have too many of those since most people who gave me books gave them to me without an inscription. I will probably hold onto baby boys books to give to him when he has a kid, or at least his favorites, which is pretty much all of them.
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