[aethertap]

I'm in the same boat, or perhaps more extreme (I have about 2000 physical books). One of the things I don't like about ebooks is just plain usability. Almost everything I read is technical in nature, and I like to take margin notes, cross reference things within and between books, and generally add to the content and organization of the book as I read it. I rarely have a need to search for text, and if I do I can generally find it quickly because of my notes and just the memory of where it was in the book.

I've only tried a small number of ebook readers, but nothing has even come close to the usability of paper books for me doing that kind of stuff. A book that I'm going to study has to be paper, for now.