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Why do you need anything to put on a shelf?

Because it adds to the room. I realize this is very much a question of personal taste, but I find that a room with a wall covered in books can be a beautiful design detail that adds warmth and character to a room. Plus physical books are pretty awesome in their own right.

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I get it is asthetic taste, but I love whenever I move somewhere and I literally have nothing but white walls, bare floors, a desk, a bed, and a few drawers of clothes and necesssary accessories.

It feels very clean to me. I don't like cluttering up space for no reason than to occupy it.

As I said, it's all a matter of taste, but I love 'clutter'. As long as it's my clutter placed by me to my exact specifications (other peoples clutter is different matter all together). I find it really hard to concentrate or relax in a too sterile environment.

Same here. I especially like being surrounded by books. This is probably why I have WAY too many books in my apartment (it looks like the apartment of the book guy in that movie Unfaithful but more cluttered) and why I often go sit at the Barnes & Noble cafe to work, as opposed to going to, say, Starbucks or Panera Bread.

I'm a fan of e-books and definitely think they have their place (I've purchased a total of 3 Nook devices over the years), but I am not ready to wholesale walk away from dead-tree books either.

Same here. Plus, those of us that do move once in a while know that books weigh a ton. When I helped my dad move, I think the boxes that had his books weighed more than his fridge ;-).

Pack boxes of 50% books and 50% clothing/computer parts/bedding/everything else to make the boxes lighter and get a good indication when you have enough books (i.e. when they really do make up 50% of the content of your boxes).

Use smaller boxes for books, and buy or hire a sack truck.

Or even better, hire people to do the heaving lifting for you.

I feel that a physical book is like a lover.By the time you read the last page you either establish a bond with it or throw it away..I never felt that kind of bond with the contents of my eReader(which feels more like a one night stand :)

I agree with you re: aesthetics, yet part of me still can't believe that, in the age of iPhones and self-driving cars, we still transmit large amounts of information by grinding up trees and shipping them all over the planet. I'll miss books, but I won't be sad to see them go.

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