I understand your pain, we all seem to make dichotomies where none should exist.

Getting rid of print books is not a prerequisite for carrying your entire library with you. Why not both meme.

Hopefully ebooks will get to the point where they offer a better experience than paper books. But my mind does not handle the information in nearly the same way when using ebooks. I find them wonderfully valuable and productive, but in the same deep introspective way. They are transactional, focused and very task directed.