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There will be no agreement here.
You're going to have people who are HUGE fans/fanboys of eReader technology and/or are diehard environmentalists who are going to ceaselessly argue that paper books will die off ASAP and some that paper period will die off completely at some point.
And you'll have others who like eReaders (or they wouldn't be here) but prefer paperbooks for somethings (something they'll read repeatedly over the years) and prefer paper for tasks like note taking, reading something they want to highlight and annotate etc.
As for what will really happen, it will be somewhere in the middle. Paper use will gradually decline, but paperbooks and paper in general will probably never go totally away. There will always be enough people who prefer paper for certain tasks to keep it around, but technology will improve in the future where most everyone owns something that can read ebooks etc. (not dedicated readers, some kind of multifunction devices) and paper use will greatly decline. But paper will never disappear.
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