E-books don't furnish a room

Indeed.

I've been intrigued by Amazon's Kindle for a while, but just out of curiosity with no urge to possess one. Unless it's free. Even if it's free, I wonder if I will bother to use it.

I don't know about you but for me, a real book offers so much a techy piece of something does not.

The scent of (relatively) freshly printed ink.
The sharp corners of the pages of a new book.
The satisfaction of having a visual gauge of your progress through the book - only a quarter of it left!
The different types of paper. Thicker, thinner, yellower, bleached whiter, rougher, smooth.
The way fonts ink onto paper.

And more importantly, the experience of buying a book. Or just hanging out in a bookstore.

Running your fingers across the spines of a row of books.
Picking out the nicest copy of the book you want, so you can personally ruin the corners through your own manhandling.
Getting discounts.
Owning a bookstore discount membership card.
Getting so familiar with a bookstore you can tell your friends, I'll meet you at the suicide books.