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Agreed, JJ. I already own more paper and ebooks than I will ever read. But the book I really want to read at any given moment isn't necessarily included in that library. When there's a book I want to read, I want it and it doesn't matter if there are other books already in my queue. That's like saying there are other movies showing, so why do you insist on seeing the one you really want to see right now. Now replace movies with cars, restaurants, spouses, jobs, etc. And if the book is available but not in ebook form, I'm much less likely to buy it (else why did I buy my Reader?). I'm sure most people here have similar opinions to varying degrees.
Also, if potential buyers of ebook readers realize that most of the books they really want to read are not available, why would they want to pay hundreds of dollars for one except to play with it? I'd like this technology to become ubiquitous and one of the requirements, it seems to me, is that most of the books that people want to read are available for it. We're not even close to that, yet.
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