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I am not sure how to insert this properly into this thread, but it is not an unrelated consideration regarding value.
Books are like gasses. They expand to fill all of the available space.
The desire to keep more books than I have room for is a large part of what has driven me to ebooks. As we have gotten older and the kids moved out and so on, we have moved into a much smaller, and easier to clean/cheaper to heat residence. All those books took up a lot of space and many entire sections have had to be sold off in order to make the changes we wanted to make. On the other hand we still have a lot more belongings than all those years I spent living out of a sea bag and an alice pack.
We are down to five large-ish book cases. Entire sections and categories are nearly gone.
Yes there is not much resale for an ebook. On the other hand if you back them up (say on SD chips in a safety deposit box at the bank - together with all your family pictures) then you will never lose them, and you will never, ever have to give up your beloved books because there isn't room for them.
I find it a net gain.
C'est la vie.
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