02-26-2013, 03:25 PM | #16 |
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02-26-2013, 06:31 PM | #17 |
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Thanks for all of your responses, guys. You've made it seem much less daunting to try to choose what to read pre-emptively. I never knew that you could access Dropbox through the Kindle's browser, and nor did I think of dumping my Calibre library into it - very cool, and I'll have to keep it in mind.
As far as using the Cloud for remote storage - it's a good idea in theory, but it would only end up frustrating me. About a quarter of my books are from Amazon themselves, and I'm a big series person, so I've grabbed book 2 and book 7 (for instance) from Amazon, because other stores have had them cheaper. I think I'll do as Katsunami does and load a few series onto my Kindle and 10 - 15 "regular" novels at a time. I'm sure that once I'm used to it, it won't bother me as much. The next step is to afford the Kindle. |
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Many such services have statements in their EULA that say something akin to this:
"When The Provider suspects that you are using The Service to host copyrighted material for which you do not have distribution rights, The Provider is allowed to close down your account without further notice." In short, if you put a lot of books into DropBox and they come to the conclusion that "2000 books have to be illegal stuff, nobody reads that much", then you could lose everything at once. They might even notify authorities to check it out. edit: DropBox indeed has such a notice: Quote:
Not trying to scare you out or anything, but I'd NOT put huge amounts of books into a storage locker such as DropBox, and if you do, make sure you have a backup and a way to prove that you actually bought that stuff. Quote:
1. None of these stores had the entire series. (Why not? That's stupid.) 2. A book could cost between $4.50 and $9.95 between the cheapest store and the most expensive one. I ended up buying 4 books with Diesel (cheapest for those three), 1 with Kobo (cheapest for that one, with a difference of $3.49 to the next cheapest), and 1 with BooksOnBoard (only one that had this part of the series.) Bleh. That's another reason to de-DRM the entire stuff and save it somewhere safe. Quote:
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02-26-2013, 07:05 PM | #20 |
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If I'm storing my books as a backup in my DropBox account I'm not hosting them for distribution so there should be no problem.
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02-27-2013, 05:34 AM | #21 |
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My system
How I collect my book for reading and manage them?
1. I find interesting books (google, library) 2. I look for them in PDF 3. In Calibre convert (and fix them-clear from: adverts, numbers and so on) to mobi 4. copy some of them to Kindle to folders: -actual read (usualy 5-9 book at the same time) -zoom (next to read) -books (according mood) -other books (non beletry) -finished read -english Now I have, after JBPatch, collection manager so I can system improve but I will see. Maybe I can add folder "unreadable" but I still havent book like this.... |
03-01-2013, 03:26 PM | #22 | |
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Personally, I choose to keep my book collection in Calibre and back up my HDD frequently, but then I don't like clutter on my Kindle, and I live in an area with unreliable internet access. I get a real sense of satisfaction when I delete a book I've just finished from the K, add a "read" custom metadata tag to it in Calibre, and load up the K with books that have been waiting in the wings. |
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03-01-2013, 03:53 PM | #23 |
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I have a collection called 1st in series and another called Next in series. Plus some author collections. I have close to 400 on the paperwhite now.
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03-01-2013, 05:31 PM | #24 |
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As of right now, I keep all of my books on my kindle. I only have around 100 or so. I also keep a back up in calibre and skydrive.
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03-10-2013, 09:47 PM | #26 |
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I don't know...I just searched all through the Kindle Dev Corner and couldn't find it. I'd be interested in turning indexing off, too.
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03-15-2013, 10:55 AM | #27 |
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I must be odd
Yes, I must be odd. I usually have three books on my Kindle. One, I am reading, the next two are, of course, the next to be read. When read I delete immediately.
I do like it all neat and tidy...lol |
03-15-2013, 11:04 AM | #28 |
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For the first six months or so, I kept all my e-books on the Kindle. But when my collection grew to over 1,000 (I have almost 7,000 now!), I found that the device had slowed down too much and had intermittent problems.
Now I keep just a handful of reference-type nonfiction, a few "active content" games/utilities, and one or two fiction books on the Kindle. I delete the books after they're read. That works much better for me. |
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