The 1001 list is a moving target - there have already been at least a couple of editions of the 1001 book, with some changes to the list, and a new edition is expected in March next year. Even at my current enthusiastic rate it will take over six years to read my way through the entire list, and it's bound to change again before then.
Many of the older books on the list are considered to be 'classics'. These are the books that are likely to remain on the 1001 list indefinitely. These books are in the public domain, making it easy to find them in eBook form thanks to the work of Project Gutenberg and other digitisation projects. These are the books that I will read first.
As I get closer to my goal, I will move towards the more modern works. Hopefully I'll be able to borrow these from my local library (as the eBook lending program expands), or purchase them as eBooks from one of the online bookstores. My hope is that over the next few years libraries and online book stores will expand their catalogues of eBooks, and that eBook prices will drop as they become more popular. This way I should be able to get through a chunk of the still in copyright part of the list without breaking the bank.
I expect that a small group of books will remain which are not available in eBook form when I come to read them. I will hope that they may eventually be published in e-form as eBooks become ubiquitous.
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