I don't own a single ebook, I do own a couple of thousand dead tree books, text books, art books, fiction, non fiction, some many times read, others once and forgotten, some are pristine, some dog eared, even second owner and although smaller in numbers, its the same with maps. Like me, or even more so, my daughter is a reader but a few years ago, moving into a tiny London flat, she divested herself of paper in favour of digital - and has regretted it ever since. She's now rebuilding her collection but the signed Pratchetts etc are gone forever.

The written word, in hard copy, doesn't need expensive tech, time limited software or even power to be read and enjoyed, yes, storage can be an issue and initial cost too but reading ebooks isn't a one time cost, power, hardware, apps, time limited licences all have a cost. Much the same as any digital media, you will possibly read stuff that you wouldn't buy in hard copy and of course sites like BC, FM et all allow us to read, often for free, millions of words we would otherwise not. But as good ol' Freddy said, 'at the end of the day' that digital archive could be lost by something as simple as a power outage, your hard copy has no such issue and could in turn adorn shelves decades, centuries even, after we pass from this mortal coil.

In a nutshell, for me ebooks are second best. ra ra paper books!