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To answer your question, no, but it has nothing to do with my liking newsprint. Rather, it has to do with my wanting to own certain books completely and permanently. Just yesterday I bought several hardbacks at my local B&N and today am waiting for delivery of Michael Burlingame's 2-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A Life from B&N.com. I think both e and p books have a role to play, certainly for the foreseeable future. Maybe as ebook reading devices improve, DRM becomes a memory, and ebook pricing becomes more realistic the role of p books will diminish to the point of disappearance (or near disappearance), but until then I will be adding to my pbook library.
Of course, I assume we are discussing young adult and adult books. When it comes to books for young children, I think the pbook still has a long life. The sensory effects of pbooks are important to developing minds.
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