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What I miss most is the mission to acquire OOP books. I'd have long lists that I'd leave with likely proprietors and I'd haunt antiquarian book sales and stores. The rush when I'd finally, finally get something I'd been hunting for years, sometimes, was colossal.
Now? You go online to Addall or Powells or Abe, see everything that's out there on a specific title and if it's a price you're willing to pay, click and it's yours. It's not nearly so much fun, if a lot less work and time. And the reality is that I've got so used to the ease of ereading that I rarely read a paperbook now anyway.
And what also is gone is serendipity, the finding of a title that you hadn't known about until that minute and you just have to have it. There's a bit of that with ebooks on occasion, but it's much rarer and the titles aren't nearly so compelling, at least for me.
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