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Originally Posted by HarryT
In my case, the prime attraction of eBooks is that, like most people in the UK, I live in a very small house. I don't have the physical space to store 10,000 paper books, but I can store (and do) 10,000 eBooks on a small external USB hard disk unit.
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Right... lack of space is one of the biggest practical issues that raises e-books out of "hobby" status. Lack of access (in remote areas, or of out-of-print copies) is, I think, the next biggest practical issue. If e-book prices ever standardize to a lower-than-paperback price, then cost will become the third biggest practical issue.
These issues aren't so "big" in the U.S., at least, not yet. But there is a trend in some circles to trim down lifestyles and living space, and in those circles, a reader containing a 500-book library is not an oddity, it's a great commodity.