Deluxe editions of books: What's your take?

[VSG]

I just bought these 3 books:

The Silmarillion

http://www.hobbit.ca/Silmarillion2003folio-cover3.jpg

The Hobbit

http://www.all-antique-books.com/uploads/antiquarianbooks/8/190245064610-1.jpg

Lord of the Rings

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410fMTkBxQL._SL500_.jpg

I was going to get the millennium edition of LOTR (7 volumes, with an audio CD of JRR Tolkien narrating some of his poems) but I found out they were the size of mass market paperbacks :n:

Anyway in this world of e-readers and tablets, is there still a place for good quality versions of books you like? I am asking as a reader, not a collector in that I do not believe I will sell these.

[The Destroyer]

Yeah there'll probably always be a place for them, kind of in the same way that some bands release really ornate and collectable copies of physical releases in this ever more digital age.

Can't see me buying that sort of thing myself, but someone's bound to be interested.

[OssMan]

Thanks for your take

[whiteyford]

Yeah i've bought a few even though i have them on my kindle or in paperback and whatnot. Think i've only read one of them though, mostly just there to look classy.