[dkarl]

I agree "dead tree" is a little bit derogatory, and unjustifiably so. Until e-books are strictly superior, until they are as good as physical books in every important way, we should respect what we've got.

I think my primary motivation for putting down dead tree books is that the e-books I've bought and haven't read are invisible. They don't sit on my bookshelves openly shaming me for not reading them :-O

[gala8y]

I really like being surrounded by books I haven't read. Books I've read - I put them aside. Put some around and think of it as of an invitation.

In Lem's Solaris they have paper books even on space station. (Love Tarkovsky's movie.)