Since my experience that paper is now optional (i.e., Rudi has bought a kindle), I've been falling more and more in love with the material.  And not really because books are printed on it, but because of the flexibility of the stuff.  With a good printer, paper is a flexible, slow-updating but durable display technology, not nearly as immutable as I had always thought.  This is one of the effects that BERG has had on my worldview, with their simple ideas like printing local weather and news on cash tickets (why not?) and tourist information on train tickets, and making local, hyper-specialized newspapers.

Basically, I start seeing paper not as a storage medium but as a canvas or clay to be formed for a purpose, and it makes me want to buy a printer / scanner combination, print out "daily organizer" booklets and learn origami.