One additional thought inspired by Ebook Week. Given all the free titles available (especially on Smashwords!) I've been downloading just about anything that looks like it might be interesting. Now for the paper book equivalent, say a huge box of paperback books given away free, the job of sorting and culling later is a lot easier. Just a glance at the front and back cover informs me what the book is about and why it interested me at all. When I look at a list of ebook files in a folder on my hard drive not much information to go by there.

Not that his has changed my opinion on my preference for ebooks versus pbooks. The other side of the coin is that in a few days of sitting with my morning coffee at my computer monitor I snagged probably a least a hundred intriguing titles.