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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
How about
"NO, e-books and paper books can co-exist beautifully"?
That would be my vote. I don't get newsprint on my fingers, so I wasn't able to vote.  |
I'm kind of with you here. I have a bookcase full - that I've collected mostly second hand in the last four years since I've moved. But as I've mentioned several times, when I moved from Texas to Illinois, my books had to stay because I couldn't afford to ship them (and since the move was due to a divorce, my ex sure wasn't willing to help!).
My Chris now has no objection to books, and would willingly cover every inch of available wallspace with bookshelves for me, but if/when we do eventually move, the sheer bulk factor made me want to "rebuild" my library with ebooks. I still pick up pbooks at garage sales and second hand stores, and occasionally a new title if I run across one I can't live without (the last book in the Dresden series comes to mind, because I already had the other nine books in hardback physical form). But for the most part, I now buy in electronic form, and store them in three places: My SD card for the EZ Reader, my PC, and on disc. There are also a few on my BlackBerry.
I have managed to rebuild a few authors' complete collections, and that makes me very happy. I bought the four Barbara Michaels titles I was missing last week.
. So - while I won't be getting rid of what's in my bookcase, I probably won't be adding to it nearly as fast as I would if I didn't have my reader.