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Originally Posted by kilohertz53
The sort of books that I BUY are the kind that don't lend themselves well to e-reading, especially on small screens. I mostly buy reference books: dictionaries, atlases, art and photography books, gardening, DIY projects, and so on. Popular fiction and narrative non-fiction books work best on e-reading devices, but most of them are only worth reading once. They're entertainment. I don't want to own them, I just want to rent them.
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You seem to have answered the question you posed in the title. You wouldn't want to. The very concept of a reference book doesn't lend itself well to paper books anyway. Too many of them are outdated too quickly. That's basically why the Web was invented, and reference material was the first to move from books to Web sites.
Fiction is a different concept, though. Personally, I don't read a lot of popular fiction, and the e-book list available through the library system is seriously anemic. As to owning entertainment on media, what do I know. Between LaserDisc and DVD, I have about 300 movies. They're entertainment, and I've watched all of them more than once (some of them dozens of times).
But my tastes and interests are not yours. Neither are your tastes mine. That's what makes the world go 'round.