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View Poll Results: If you have a large collection, have you read every book? | |||
I have read every book | 24 | 8.92% | |
I have not read every book, but I plan to | 157 | 58.36% | |
I am not concerned with reading every book, I just like collecting | 69 | 25.65% | |
I do not have a large collection | 9 | 3.35% | |
Other | 10 | 3.72% | |
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04-21-2010, 05:21 PM | #31 |
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I started reading ebooks in 2000 with baen books and have all the baen books. I have read them all, or at least partially read them all (some I didn't care for). Until I got my Sony 500 and the Sony store opened up, I only had a hand full of ebooks that weren't from Baen. Now, I have about 400 more books between Sony and Amazon, which puts me at around 1000. I only have twenty or thirty PD books. I would have a lot more if the books that I have in dead tree format would come out in ebook format. There are quite a few copyright holders who are leaving money on the table by not entering the ebook market.
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04-21-2010, 05:42 PM | #32 |
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I have a few over 5,000 ebooks right now-- more that I have of pbooks, despite having a bookcase in every room including closets and bathrooms. I'll never read all or even most books, but when I finish one, I like to browse through them and pick out which one I feel like reading next.
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04-21-2010, 07:17 PM | #33 | |
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I'll grant you that they're 'leaving money on the table' but until I see more figures on both costs & projected sales I'm not sure I'll grant you that they're leaving any profit on the table-more likely to be losses. (At least they probably *think* it's more likely to be losses. In predicting future sales beliefs often have more influence than facts.) Last edited by calvin-c; 04-21-2010 at 07:18 PM. Reason: cleaned up grammar |
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04-21-2010, 09:28 PM | #34 | |
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Oh, 10,000+ books, I'll never read them all. |
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04-22-2010, 02:59 AM | #35 | |
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04-22-2010, 03:36 AM | #36 |
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I've been seriously reading ebooks since '99 or so, when I got one of the very first Palm Vx-es. I have some 30.000 ebooks (yes, I'm a hoarder ), so I'll never read them all. Not even if I could keep my speed up to that during my holidays; even that would be the equivalent of 'only' 600 or so books a year, and being 45 now...
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04-22-2010, 03:58 AM | #37 |
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I'm a total bibliophile. I love having books; except that the pbooks are taking over my house like triffids! I've stopped accumulating pbooks and moved to hoarding ebooks. So many books taking up so little space. Bliss!
I intend to read them all. But I may have to take a few lifetimes to do it. |
04-22-2010, 10:14 AM | #38 |
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04-23-2010, 02:08 PM | #39 |
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This thread reinforces my view that people see reading a book to be an accomplishment.
Nobody stops to think about how many television shows he has seen. |
04-23-2010, 03:45 PM | #40 | |
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A sense of accomplishment in the field of television and cinema can be achieved by acquiring a large collection of movies and/or series. |
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04-26-2010, 11:19 AM | #41 |
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About 5,000 pbooks, and around 2,000 ebooks. I've read just about all of them (and the rest are queued) in one format or the other. However, I'm trying to vitualise my collection to save space; so I may not have read many of the ebooks in that format. When I was young, i used to read several books a day; these days, I read maybe two to three books a week; less time, and the books are getting longer!
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04-27-2010, 11:51 PM | #42 |
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I chose other, as I don't do it to collect, but I also don't plan to read them all. Time goes by, and I sometimes lose interest in a book that I thought was interesting at the time I found it. This latter tends to happen with non-fiction, and less so with fiction. I also recognize the futility of thinking I can read them all unless I stop picking up new books for a long time, and I don't seem constitutionally capable of such behavior.
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04-28-2010, 03:44 AM | #43 |
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I have read everybook, More than once.
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12-08-2011, 12:04 PM | #44 |
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At last count I have over 156, 000 ebooks.
I have no intention of reading anywhere like that. At the mo' I have about 6 K catalogued in Calibre, multiple formats I seem to be downloading about 1,000 a month currently, I expect this will slow down eventually as I run out of books. I have loads of copies of the same book. For example my Stephen King folder has about 2 k books and I don't think he's written that many |
12-08-2011, 12:06 PM | #45 | |
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