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I voted "other". I understand that many people are deeply attached to the physicality of paper books. They love the look of them, the feel of them, the smell of them. Those are subjective aesthetic judgments and I have no problem with that.
What I have a problem with is the widely held view that paper books are somehow superior to other types of books. The Twitter hashtag #booktwt for example, presumes that "book" means only "paper book". For some who hold that view it really IS about "conspicuous display", but that is no more "right" or "wrong" than putting pictures on walls, self-evidently for the purpose of "conspicuous display"
For me, the content is more important than the medium, and would consider myself a bibliophile because I read voraciously. Many, many "bibliophiles" feel no compunction in contemning that notion, and that viewpoint irks me more than someone taking pleasure in walls of books
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