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If I want something 20 years from now, I'll buy a hardcopy. Having said that, I've finally gotten to the point in my life where I look at all of the books littering my shelves that I thought I would re-read someday. At any given time, there are scores of new books that I would like to read. Therefore, I've never had any interest in re-reading books. It was hard to admit, but it's true.
I treat DRM as a lease. Whether or not that's true, at least I won't be disappointed someday if I can't access the books with DRM. However, that's why I strongly believe that DRMed books must be cheaper than hardcopies.
Simply put... get an e-reader if you want to read something at the moment, and you aren't terribly concerned with what happens to the book later. If you want to hang onto your books and know that they will be there in the future... stay away from e-readers.
*** Note: No doubt HarryT and others will disagree with my summary, stating that there are countless e-books available with no DRM. While this is true, there are thousands of e-books available only as DRMed editions. This gets back to my argument that I don't want the e-reader dictating what I read. If DRM is an issue, then there are many books out there that I'm going to have to purchase a hardcopy of. Having said that, at least there is a .LIT workaround that negates much of the DRM problems.
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