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Originally Posted by Breid
I am very possibly representative of a minority viewpoint on this forum, but I am puzzled by other folks' desire to store thousands of ebooks on their ereaders. I am building my collection and add all my purchases to Calibre, which I backup regularly. But I only keep my to be read books on my ereader, and as I currently have 40 titles on that shelf, I reckon that will keep me in reading material for at least a month.
I am wondering if I am a slow reader, or if other folks have a higher 'must store' threshold than mine?
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I guess I'm a typical "ambassador" of the other faction:
I'm totally annoyed, that I can't keep my circa 900 Amazon eBooks on my Kindle Paperwhite.
(I've got maybe 50 comics [Dilbert & Garfield], each around 50 to 100 MB and the same for roundabout 50 travel guides and the Kindle Paperwhite only holds 2GB).
Why?
a.) I don't want to put the read books into the cloud archive.
b.) I've bought the 3G model, so I can download books wherever I am. Still: I don't want to rely on that. When traveling, I want to be able to access my books - even in the remotest of locations. Without bothering about WiFi or 3G and such.
c.) Usually I don't have a plan, what to read next. I wouldn't be able, to choose let's say 50 books I intend to read next. Often a promising book is boring and I want to switch. But what to read? Then I enjoy to scroll through my entire library. Now, on my Paperwhite, my library is about 60 pages. That's not that long. In cover mode, I can scroll through that library and choose 1 or 2 books to read within less than 10 minutes.
d.) A few years ago, I put lots of effort in my library. I've downloaded all my purchases separately on the PC: Then I stripped them from DRM and converted them to half a dozen target formats for my various readers. I don't want to spend that amount of time anymore. I purchase on my momentary favorite, download and read. It may seem a bit risky, to have no backup at all. But as long as I buy from Amazon and the likes, I don't expect them to cease business quickly. I've had that with some smaller merchants and made my backups in their ramp-down phase.