Q-methodology was used to identify clusters of opinions about e-books at Miami University. The research identified four distinct opinion types among those investigated: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers. The initial Q-methodology study results were then used as a basis for a large-n survey of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty so that we could have a more complete picture of the demographic and social makeup of the campus population. Results from that survey indicate that academic discipline is strongly associated with the respondents' opinion types. Gender and educational status are also associated with respondents' opinion types. s academic libraries ramp up their investments in e-book collections and experiment with a growing range of purchasing models, they need to know more about how their users view e-books and what expectations users bring to library collections. In 2007-2008, our research team conducted a study using Q-methodology to identify opinions about e-books among the population of library users at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 1 Q-methodology is a well-established research method used to study people's subjectivity (or, put differently: how people think about a topic).2 Typically, a Q-study involves a few basic steps. After opinion statements are collected about a topic of interest, subjects are asked to rank them on a positive-to-negative scale, a process