Books and Imagination

"After all, what was one book to me? Really, it didn't matter. One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home."
--The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelley

Despite the fact that this wonderful story is set in 1899, I couldn't read this without thinking of the changing nature of books and reading in the current age. How much different would the feeling of this quote be if we substituted the idea of ebooks and a Kindle for the actual paper and board of books themselves? How would it change the architecture of the room, the feeling of being surrounded by stories, comfort that they can bring?