The thing I miss most is the physicality not of reading the book, but of browsing a collection of books. When I'm considering whether to start a new book or re

The thing I miss most is the physicality not of reading the book, but of browsing a collection of books. When I'm considering whether to start a new book or re-read a treasured one a bookshelf is perfect for this -- I can look at spines and instantly regain context. I can see hundreds of books in a matter of seconds without having to flip pages. I can put candidates aside and prune them down. Similarly when I'm browsing books -- I still find my self going to Barnes & Noble as a lookie-loo; just browsing around for interesting books, because the experience is so much better than anything you can get on an electronic device. I've thought before that it would be neat to have an "Amazon e-book Store" where there was a single copy of each book, with a QR code that contained an affiliate link to buy the book on Amazon. You'd get all the benefits of physical browsing there; you can take down a book, page through it, look at other books by the same author, have staff recommendations, etc. The operational cost would be small because you wouldn't have to carry multiple copies of the same book, and you wouldn't have to keep any non-display inventory or have to deal with the retail aspect at all.