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One of the reasons I like having physical bookshelves is that printed books are the original ROM (read-only memory). Once printed, they can't be altered save by printing a new edition that readers who prefer the older edition are free to ignore. The only way to see what I'm reading when I read a paper book is to look over my shoulder -- which is a good way to get punched in the face if we aren't close.
Bookshelves are also good places for Smudge to perch when he wants to watch over me like a guardian beast.
Some of my paper books also hold important memories. For example, I've got an edition of Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot that I bought from a street vendor overlooking the Seine in Paris back in 2017. I had also bought a French translation of Philip K. Dick's Ubik in a shrink-wrapped paperback. I had managed to dredge up enough high school French to hold a halting conversation with the vendor; her English was even worse than my French but we managed.
Very writable ROM however! (At least according to every book I've checked out from the library)
Bookshelves are also good places for Smudge to perch when he wants to watch over me like a guardian beast.
I definitely agree that bookshelves have use. My SO uses them to holds various plants, and I love watching them climbing up the walls every year.
I like the memory you tie with the book. Some have that for me, but most of my books I got from some online book retailer, and very few in person.