Not an avid reader myself, probably read a book every 3 months or so...But my wife is a book lover, she would probably leave for a book one day. Anyway, she keeps buying/getting all these books & we have so many and not enough space to put them in. So, for the last 3 years I have been working on my plan to get her a Kindle. Initially, she flat out refused as you'd expect, like you said there is something joyous about holding a book in our hands. So I kept chipping away and then about 10 months ago one of her friends who also is massive book nerd turned up at our place with a Sony book reader in her bag. The plan was working and I was ready to go in for the kill.
So, for this year's wedding anniversary i bought a Kindle off Amazon. It arrived, I placed it strategically in the study, with it's cover on, fully charged and about a dozen books from her favourite authors on it ready to go. She picked it up with reluctance, like a lover who is about to break up and is not sure if it the right decision. She sat down and tried to work it out, I had to help with navigation and general settings.
That was 4 months ago. Couple of weeks ago we were lying in bed, she was reading a book, on her kindle, when she rolled over, looked at me & said ' This is the best present you have ever given me apart from our child'.
Game. Set. Match.
Now, I don't have to worry about storing books that will never be read twice & also not feel guilty about all the tress being chopped for paper. There will be the odd book that we will hold on our shelves but majority will be passed on to the library.