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I've been trying to buy only ebooks since I got my reader. I've succeeded as far as fiction goes, but not non-fiction. I've also been writing to authors and publishers trying to persuade them to publish their books as ebooks - and had a range of responses from "nope, never" to "it's in our plans"
There are lots of reasons I won't be moving over to all eboooks for the forseeable future.
Not all the pbooks I have that I want to keep are available as ebooks, and right now I don't have any desire to scan and OCR them myself. Maybe when some of the larger ones finally fall apart (sadly, in the case of Against the Day, that's not going to take too long - that paperback is very badly bound), and replacing them with another pbook is problematic I'll change my mind.
Even if all my pbooks were available as ebooks, and usable as such, it would cost far too much to replace them all.
The current batch of readers are neither big enough nor rugged enough for me to be happy using at my workbench or whilst I'm cooking (I do read on my reader when I'm cooking, but it never gets as close to the stove or ingredients as the cookery books do...)
None of the current batch of readers are any use for books with full colour photography, of which I have more than few - from "coffee table" books to technique books)
Some books just don't work as ebooks for me - certainly not as things currently are, anyway. I have a few books that are best read by dipping in and out at random - trivia, quotations, that sort of thing.
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