You know, it's never occurred to me to think someone was being pretentious because they have lots of books--or that someone might think we are. I...have a lot of reference books and books I love and books I plan to read--every possible bookshelf-containing space in my apartment!

And I love looking at other people's bookshelves, because it does give me clues about them. I love browsing paper books.

I'm kind of viewing my ereader as a thing for travel, for books I don't deeply care about, and for Project Gutenberg (and fanfiction), because so many of the other functions of books for me are deeply tied to paper, and to the social aspects of paper books.

Hmmm.