[swombat]

I don't want my children to grow up in a house with no books, so i intend to only read ebook of books i own.

I feel exactly the same, and yet I just bought a Kindle and am very much planning to use it for most of my reading.

How do I resolve this dilemna?

Well, my parents had the same issue, though set up differently. When they fled from Romania after I was born, they had none of the huge library which they had back where they grew up.

So what did they do? They bought books. They bought the kinds of books which they wanted to have sitting on shelves in the house where I grew up, so that I could stumble on them and read them. It worked pretty well.

Most of the best books can be found for cheap in flea-markets. Building a solid library of top quality classics, from Gogol, Dostoievsky, Dumas and Dickens, to Hesse, Mann, Marques and Gary, is not that expensive.