Despite the fact that I once did a seminar presentation on Ulysses and books as physical objects*, I generally don't care about books as physical objects. I don't like old book smell, don't care about history, unless they are family ones. But I really like them as extremely useful physical objects. I own a Kindle and find it very useful on holiday, when I want to read something on Gutenberg or downloaded fic, or can get a book cheap, but as technology, I prefer paperbacks. Nothing can outweigh the flickability.

*I really didn't want to do a joint presentation, options were running out, and I correctly assessed that (a) no-one else was likely to voluntarily pick Ulysses, and (b) there were probably extra marks for just going for it!