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There will always be books that I want to "own" so I can reread. I think my issue is that I don't consider the eInk experience to be as visceral as a traditional hardcover book. I've also discovered that I don't retain information read from my Reader as well as I do from printed media. On the flip side, I find myself more tolerant of material that I might not normally read (and perhaps that's the novelty of the device). Obviously my experiences don't mimic everyone's but my mind goes towards disposable media with this thing. If Sony offered a large library for a monthly fee I could experiment with more authors or not feel obligated to finish something I'm not interested in. Let's face it, even if I had 10,000 books available, the number of titles I can read in a given period doesn't change. I liken it to Napster. I pay $14.95 a month to listen to as much as I can stand. Obviously I can't listen to everything (nor would I want to) but it's a model I'd be more comfortable with until questions like format and DRM and hardware are answered.
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