09-10-2013, 06:30 PM | #166 |
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Oh I quit too but I've still got DVDs from before. Some are years old and still wrapped.
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09-10-2013, 08:08 PM | #167 |
drowned in old books
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I like to keep most of mine with me, just in case I have to know- when on out and about- what the name of a minor character in Charles Dickens was or which chapter this-and-that happens in Tale of Genji.
It's nice to be able to search for, say, "Akashi" or "Scrooge" and have EVERY reference to the character pop up: not only in the work itself, but also in every analysis and essay devoted to the book, as well as other works maki reference to it. (I know, I have no life!) It also makes me feel a bit more secure to have most or ALL of my books with me, so that if a metor hits the house or I get trapped on a desert island, I would still have all of my books to read. Not that reading should really be a priority in those eventualities. I like having all my books with me- especially the reference books and classic novels. :x And I feel like the storage space and database/indexing capability of the Kindle is being WAAASTED if I don't have almost everything on it. (I take it too far, TBH: in my dragging EVERYTHING onto it, I think I ended up with 2 or 3 versions of some of the older books... So sorting the read/unread categories is abit of a drudge.) It makes the device run more slowly, so perhaps I haven't acted prudently... |
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09-10-2013, 10:29 PM | #168 |
Plan B Is Now In Force
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I keep a few hundred books on each ereader, and they are all TBR books and favorites that I periodically re-read. Normally, when I finish a book I delete it from the ereader.
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09-10-2013, 10:52 PM | #169 |
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I'm thinking about acquiring a raspberry pi mini computer, and dedicating it to become a Calibre server. As most ereaders have a browser, it'd be as good as any cloud and much more versatile with regard to sorting and searching.
I basically have wifi everywhere I go, and if I don't, I'll activate my phone's wifi hotspot so the Kindle can connect through that and use the phone's 3G connection. I could then acquire every book I have, almost as fast as buying it in the online store. Maybe I can also use my old but already running Atom computer, that I use to play my FLAC music through XBMC. That would draw much more power, however. Last edited by Katsunami; 09-10-2013 at 10:58 PM. |
09-11-2013, 12:08 AM | #170 | |
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I'd probably starve, I'm not sure there's anything within 1 mile that sells groceries. Heck, even in the 5 mile radius, I think the only things would be 7-11 type stores. |
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09-11-2013, 01:52 AM | #171 |
Bujavid tekikin
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Heh. For me I can see where DiapDealer is coming from: I'm 2km away from 3 shopping malls, 5 minutes away from a bunch of restaurants ranging from budget to high end; just about everything I'd need to live comfortably is accessible in under 30 minutes by foot or by car. Only thing not around here is a decent library, alas!
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09-11-2013, 02:24 AM | #172 |
Ebook-Fan
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I did it. i put 3000 Ebooks on a microsdcard on my Sony Reader PRS T1. And? It does not slow down. Okay the first time (20 minutes or so) after putting on so much books the reader needs time to scan the new books an collections. But if that done, ist no problem to search for book, search in you collections etc. I know a other guy storing even more ebooks on an micro sd card on his Sony Reader PRS T2.
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09-11-2013, 03:45 AM | #173 |
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I keep my entire ebook library with me on my device - though I must say that it's significantly smaller than the libraries that a lot of you have in your possession! My only real motivations for this are laziness and lack of foreward-thinking: I don't choose what books I'd like to read after I finish my current one, because I'm indecisive by nature and can spend hours deliberating between two or three books, anyway. An extension of choice doesn't spoil it; the choice is hard enough to begin with! Furthermore, I find it much speedier and more satisfying to press ctrl + a and then 'Send to Device'. It saves having to scroll through my separate Calibre libraries, spend hours considering what I'll want to read, and then shift + select numerous titles to send.
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09-11-2013, 04:23 AM | #174 | |
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When it starts to have problems it's not about being slow, it's about the firmware locking up, processes having to stop, and getting a fully black screen when trying to navigate from an open book back to the main menu. You also have to work with it for a while. It doesn't happen every time, but will happen several times during a week. If you're lucky, it won't happen, but I'm not the only one to have this problem with very high numbers, on all of my T1's and T2's. |
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09-11-2013, 05:46 AM | #175 |
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I will share my experience in a week or two. But i'm in a good mood. This other guy has 10,000 Ebooks on his T2, and has nor problems.
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09-11-2013, 06:51 AM | #176 | |
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I assure you, the idea of "just hopping in the car and driving around to get out of the house for a bit" is just as brain-asploding to me... especially at $3.50-4.00 per gallon. |
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09-11-2013, 07:15 AM | #177 | |
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09-11-2013, 07:16 AM | #178 |
Nameless Being
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Ensure that you have a good book on chemistry, since you'll need to make a battery for your ereader eventually.
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09-11-2013, 07:38 AM | #179 |
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I'm wondering why you are wondering.
Is there any reasen to have only a few books on the reader. Big SD-cards aren't expensive. The weigth is the same. So why shall I do not carry all books with me? |
09-11-2013, 07:48 AM | #180 | |
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