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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I expect that in time, with ebooks and ereaders becoming more prevalent, that reaction might change - it'll be entirely reasonable to expect that people have moved over to ebooks.
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It could even completely turn around in the opposite direction.
"Huh... paper Books?"
"DVD and Blu-Ray Disks?"
What kind of a backward sod it this?
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As it is, ebooks are very much in their infancy here (I think it's basically only in the last year or so that many - certainly not all - newly published books also come in epub editions, and there is active digitalisation of public domain classics by the best known 19th / early 20th century authors going on, but we're talking in the low hundreds, not thousands or tens of thousands of books)
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If one's not reading in English, then e-readers become much less useful.
I for one wouldn't want to be reading Dutch books only; I'd pay through the nose, because I can only get them in Dutch stores, and e-books are just as expensive as paperbacks. Also, the selection is horrible. Most books published in Dutch are actually translated English ones.
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and I expect most ebook converts for now are the same kind of people like me, i.e. people who were already reading largely in English and had to import all their reading material, so a home without books = very likely a home without readers...
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You won't see any books in my house, anywhere, except when I'd be inclined to show you the room where the computer / office / library / study is.
In 2011, I've started to re-read all paper books I have, and each time I replace one with an e-book, it gets noted as replaced. After a series is completely reread and replaced, I'm selling or giving away the paper books. In a year or three from now, you won't find any paper books in my house anymore, except for books that can't be replaced with e-books.
Then I'll probably start to create my "epic book case", buying hardcover editions of my favorites. Not really to read them; more as collector's items.
Somewhere down the road, I'll also give away or sell all of my DVD's, not even bothering to replace them; I'll only keep the movies I think best.
My CD-collection was the first one to be digitized, and it's now (almost) completely converted into FLAC with high resolution album covers. I haven't touched my CD's for ages. (I even don't have a CD-player anymore, although my DVD-player can be used as such.) Probably, at some point in time, all CD's will be given away or sold as well.