Seeing this makes me a bit wistful.. it used to be if I walked into someone's home and didn't see shelves full of books, my impression of that person was forever changed.

Now, my home has no shelves full of books. All my (dead tree) books are in storage and I just have a kindle.

I still read as much as always, but I feel as if a certain degree of intellectualism is lost. No longer can someone look at my shelves and say "oh, I loved this book" and spark a nice literary discussion.

I should add, however, I am probably one of the few regular users of goodreads.com, though it is hardly a replacement (and I've only got one or two friends).