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I admit, even with my preference for ebooks, my first reaction upon seeing a home with no paper books is also, hm, not entirely positive. (Yes, I know it's a snobbish reaction; I'm actively trying to get over it and I would never sneer at the people for that, but it's the automatic reaction I get.)
I'd love to have a house with space for a proper library. As it is, I have a two-bedroom flat that has 14 bookshelves in it (most of them ~2 m high and double-stacked) and that's pretty much the absolute limit, considering I do need other furniture and some breathing space, too.
.. of course, even if I had space for a library, I'd be buying paper books and never reading them, since I really and genuinely just don't like reading paper books any more. :-/ Didn't like the physical reading process already for a few years before ebooks became an attainable reality, especially with mass market paperbacks, but I did like reading the stories in them (and looking at the books on my shelves), so dealing with the physical book was a necessary evil.
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