Wow - bold move.
I'm now happily throwing out paperbacks - especially SF which I have in Baen on the Reader - but I have a core of "old favourites" which I now have in good quality hardback editions, such as "Lord of the Rings", "The Count of Monte Cristo", a complete works of Dickens, and a few others. Those I could never throw away - I still think there's nothing to beat the experience of sitting in a comfy chair and reading a good quality, properly bound book. It's the whole "sensual experience" of the smell of the leather, the feel of the pages as you turn them, the weight of the book, etc. The Reader can't replace that.
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