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I'm buying more second-hand books than ever, I think. The move to ebooks has broken my attachment to owning a high-quality physical object, which meant I almost always bought new in the past, but there are still things I can't get at a price I like electronically, so I go to charity shops and second-hand bookshops. And then other things quite often catch my eye while I'm there. The difference is that I now get rid of them after I've read them, instead of building up an ever-greater library.
I'm still happy to read pbooks, unless they're particularly unwieldy.
Pre-ebook, I used to pick up books I wasn't sure I'd like as part of special offers - 3-for-2, etc - or from remainder bookshops, or I'd borrow them from the library. It was a way of experimenting without having to risk much. Now there's a set price, and I have to pay it or not, and I often choose not. The speculative randomness has more-or-less gone from my book-buying. Second-hand paperbacks give me that back. (The library is still there, of course, but having a paperback gives me more flexibility on when to read it.)
Also, it's kind of fun, searching for that elusive book. I've bought almost all of Agatha Christie's extensive catalogue from charity shops. I have just six books, of about 80, left to find. I could buy them immediately online, but where's the fun in that? It's much better to take a walk around a nearby town and find an unexpected copy of the elusive Towards Zero in an animal-charity shop I hadn't even noticed before, with a very small book selection.
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