I don't own many hardcovers; I don't know why, but I just don't. In the cases where I do, the books tend to be huge, heavy ones - Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary heavy. In this case the hardcover is as much an additional hindrance as it is a form of protection.
Nonetheless I imagine it must be nice to have a lot of hardcovers. There's a certain respect behind it - a whole shelf of books in shells instead of skins, some monolithic semblance of knowledge. The whole idea of knowledge lies in the illusion of its completion and completeness.
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