I think it's telling that I put the latter on hold and started reading the former.

Tactility is underrated, and I'm very afraid of losing it at the expense of convenience and expediency. I didn't care one scrap about moving away from CD's in favor of digital files, but I think that's because in the end, the music, the real endpoint, is the same in an experiential sense (putting aside arguments over sound quality of compressed files for a moment). However, there seems to be a quality to holding a book and turning pages that is lost with eBooks. I wouldn't try to articulate why I love books so much, but I'm just not ready to get a Kindle yet. I even love looking at books on my shelf. I recently moved, and I finally decided to give away a bunch of books that I haven't picked up off the shelf in a decade. Even though I probably wouldn't have ever read any of them again, I know I'll miss them sometimes, and FWIW I'm not typically a very sentimental person when it comes to objects. That is, I don't fetishize things, but I'll cry when books are a thing reserved for collectors.