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I did find myself coming across the same advice of 'and you can borrow e-books for free from your library' a lot in articles when I was looking at alternatives to Amazon after deleting my Amazon account, and I did check my local library here in the UK (which is one of the bigger libraries in my county) and the e-book offering was poor to say the least (and I'm being generous)
On a side note (but somewhat related) with a caveat: I know everyones economic position is different and I wouldn't presume to know what anyone else would consider 'affordable' but I thought I would have a look at three random books from my physical bookshelves and three random books from Hive and Kobo and compare the price; It just so happened that all three random books from my shelves all cost £6.99 (weird!) - three random e-books at Hive - £8.99, £2.49 and £3.99; three random e-books from Kobo - £4.99, £2.49 and £3.00. That very un-scientific experiment would suggest that at least 'books' (as in e-books) seem to be cheaper now we have e-books, so that's something I guess??*
*Of course this only applies to the UK where I live it could be very different somewhere else in the world.
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