[Katsunami]

To be honest, I've only started reading books "for me" in 1999. Before that, I had to read books for high school, which in later years came down to reading 25 in English and 25 in Dutch, totalling 50 books a year on top of normal lessons. That was quite enough.

Then, in the beginning of 1999, I started reading fantasy in Dutch and playing RPG's in earnest after being introduced to Baldur's Gate. (Fantasy was not allowed for school reading: we had to read "literature only". Even LotR was out.) I read in Dutch up until 2005, mainly out of habit and because people gave me books in Dutch as presents. Then, a Dutch publisher decided to not translate the next book in a series I was reading.

Instantly I started selling off my Dutch books, and rebought each sold book in English, re-reading my entire library in the process. I didn't read too much new stuff. I tried e-books in the end of 2007, beginning of 2008, but abandoned them due to lack of content, but I kept an eye on the market. When the KTouch came around, I seriously started looking into e-books, Calibre and de-DRM-ing again, and bought a Touch.

Since then I've upgraded to the KPW, I haven't bought a single paper book, and replaced my entire library (almost) with e-books thanks to Kobo coupons; I'm now preparing to sell off all my English pbooks.

The only paper books I plan to buy are the "Realms of..." series in the Forgotten Realms, simply because they are not (yet) available as an e-book. Maybe I'll start a collection of hardcovers for my absolute favourites, but I don't know that yet. Oh, and reference books will always be in paper, at least for now. I don't find e-readers or tablets a good alternative yet.

So yes, e-books have changed my book buying habits and my book collection extensively.