09-06-2013, 03:40 PM | #76 | |
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09-06-2013, 03:42 PM | #77 |
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My problem is my reading taste changes so often so every 6 months or so I have to clean off books I thought I would read soon. I have about 88 books on my Kindle which is way too many I like to keep it around 50.
Thanks to Amazon's Personal Document Cloud I get 5 GB to keep my books available in case I change my mind. There really no reason to keep many books on your Kindle as you can download them whenever needed and unlike Amazon's Archive Items which I couldn't find anything with 5000+ books from them, on the Personal Documents Cloud I put only the books I will read this year. When the first of the year comes. I delete everything and start over. Last edited by Blossom; 09-06-2013 at 03:46 PM. |
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09-06-2013, 03:46 PM | #78 | |
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But it never occurred to me to be puzzled about other people's reading or storage habits. For the record, I constantly re-read, and carry everything I can with me. That is the single best reason for changing from pbook to ebook, in my opinion - I can carry 10,000 books in the space that one book used to occupy. I often am overcome with the desire to go back a read a specific paragraph, page, chapter, or entire book that I've read before. Now, I can do that, wherever I am. |
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09-06-2013, 03:57 PM | #79 | |
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09-06-2013, 04:02 PM | #80 |
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09-06-2013, 04:50 PM | #81 | |
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I have 3 readers I use regularly and seldom read the same book on two at once. (occasionally I will switch to the Sony when the Kobo formats the book really badly) but I usually have different ones going on each reader. One for in bed, one for balcony or table/chair reading, and one for the bus. But if I am really enjoying a book on the bus reader for example, I will just take it to bed till I finish the book Readers are cheap enough for me to want to get another one since the new ones are coming out. I don't have to justify the expense, I spend more on things that are bad for my health weekly What I would like is a system that would keep all my readers valuable to me but would not take up the time and energy of a part time job. So I am interested in threads like this and more often than not I learn that one tiny little invaluable thing that makes me say why didn't I think of that. Some of them from yourself if memory serves me correctly Helen |
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09-06-2013, 05:07 PM | #82 |
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Why do I keep my entire e-book library on my e-reader? Because that is what it was designed and manufactured to do, and what I bought it for, and my computer is the backup 'device' for my e-reader, not another e-reader.
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09-06-2013, 05:16 PM | #83 |
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Calibre is my library; my device is my book-bag.
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09-06-2013, 08:45 PM | #84 |
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09-06-2013, 08:47 PM | #85 |
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09-06-2013, 09:28 PM | #86 |
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You can't make me.
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09-06-2013, 09:39 PM | #87 |
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For the same reason that you have different to read shelves. The reader is the highest priority shelf. Also I always have network connection through my phone.
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09-06-2013, 10:25 PM | #88 | |
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I don't see that analogy working. You can have virtual shelves on one reader. You don't have different houses for each of your shelves, do you?
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09-06-2013, 11:18 PM | #89 |
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09-06-2013, 11:47 PM | #90 |
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My three-terabyte external hard drive is my library. It contains all my books, music, and movie/TV videos. (Properly backed up, of course.)
Calibre is my card catalog and 'fetch-it' program, that delivers to my e-reader. As a collector and hoarder I have hundreds of thousands of e-books. If I read 6 books per day for the next 127 years, I'll begin to put a dent in the collection. I have too many other hobbies to read more than 3 a day... In the meantime, I keep between 300-400 on my reader at all times, loaded from my TBR list. I figure if I can't find something I feel like reading out of 400 books that "I" originally chose, I'm doing something wrong! With 400 books on my Kobo, there are 79 pages of just book titles. I could spend an hour just reading the list, trying to decide what to read. Sure, I 'could' keep more on the reader. There's room. I 'could' fit more furniture into my living room. I 'could' stuff more food into my fridge. There is room. I just don't feel the 'need.' Stitchawl |
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