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No shifting back for me - although I wouldn't call ebooks "cheap", at least not when got from a sale or with a discount coupon, paper books are still considerably more expensive, and that includes used books on Amazon Marketplace even when they cost £0.01 - postage costs make sure of that.
Also, the main reason why I buy and read ebooks is space, and I simply don't have a lot more space left for paper books. I have shifted back to buying a handful of books either both as ebooks (for actually reading them) and as hardbacks (because they look gorgeous on my shelf), but that's in the very rare cases of must-have books which I know I will want to both re-read and admire, which again means that if I don't like the cover art of the hardback, then I won't buy it.
I've given up on paperbacks completely, unless it's the very rare case of a book that is not officially available as ebook in any region - in that case, I go for a (new if at all possible, not second-hand, to make sure I'm compensating the author & publisher) paperback to keep in my shelf and a darknet ebook so that I can actually read it. I can't read paperbacks at all any more; holding them open is just more effort than I like. At least hardbacks tend to have wider inner margins and stay open more easily, so I don't have to break/fold the spine every 50-60 pages just to be able to read the text close to the inner margins.
But these days my TBR list is so long anyway that I'm far more likely to just not read the book at all if it cannot be bought as an ebook. And the long TBR list also means I can wait for a deal/coupon/for the price to go down, and I got over any sense of unease/guilt over country-hopping (originally due to geo-restrictions, now also for price differences) a long time ago - other than a handful of "must have now" books a year, I have no real need to buy books at full release price.
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