I used to have a twenty-foot tall bookcase that was full of books. I built it into my stairwell. I really loved those books. I had a very hard to find copy of the journals of a Tasmanian missionary who was also a jerk; I had every book by William Vollmann, I had several shelves of 1970s scifi; everything Steinbeck published; three copies of Catch-22; the complete collection of Robert E Howard; numerous journals of Arctic explorers; and a paperback copy of Wisconsin Death Trip.

I don't own any books now.

My conversion to ebooks happened in this way: I like the convenience of getting things right away and being able to access them instantly.

That said, I don't like ebooks as much as I like webpages.