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Old 08-27-2023, 06:30 PM   #16
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I think we all horde eBooks.
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Old 08-27-2023, 06:44 PM   #17
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I have about 800 on my main e-reader,a Kobo Libra H2O. About 5 to 6 thousand archived on Dropbox.

Why worry about hoarding ebooks? They don't take up any physical space.
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Old 08-27-2023, 06:56 PM   #18
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I have about 800 on my main e-reader,a Kobo Libra H2O. About 5 to 6 thousand archived on Dropbox.

Why worry about hoarding ebooks? They don't take up any physical space.
Because we will amass more books then we can read in our lifetimes.
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Because we will amass more books then we can read in our lifetimes.

I think everyone that likes to read has that problem. No one will be able to read all they books they want in life. Just enjoy what you do read. 😊
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Old 08-27-2023, 08:52 PM   #20
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If you need any more encouragement, hard drives are amazingly cheap these days. 5TB usb drive is $115, a 3.5 inch internal 8TB is $109, and a 2TB laptop drive is $68. That dinky 2TB drive could probably store millions of ebooks.
I have many T of drives. They are just distributed.
(I also found one of my old MFM drives (taller than modern drives). I used to use old drives as Swap drives. Now I have more RAM than all My Windows 9x systems together.

For really large storage needs, maybe the client would let me use the rack (below) I built out. 22 Petabytes of fast access.
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Old 08-27-2023, 10:05 PM   #22
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For really large storage needs, maybe the client would let me use the rack (below) I built out. 22 Petabytes of fast access.


You mean twenty-two *thousand* TERABYTES!??

How is that even possible!?
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Old 08-28-2023, 12:23 AM   #23
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Hmm... looks a bit like the last one we installed at work though that was ~2.2 petabytes raw storage so ~2 petabytes actually available. The hardware is a NAS controller and expansion shelf stuffed with 15.6TB NVME drives. It wasn't cheap but was supposed to meet our data storage needs for the next 5 years.
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Old 08-28-2023, 01:26 AM   #24
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last time I looked, the highest capacity NVME sticks had 8TB...
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About 5 to 6 thousand archived on Dropbox. .
Make a local backup or two. Dropbox isn't an archive. It's someone else's server designed for sharing. Those could be gone today.

That would take up only a few percent of a cheap USB HDD (stores better in a drawer than SSD or USB /SD card memeory).
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(I also found one of my old MFM drives (taller than modern drives).
Good luck on finding a controller and also a PC with an ISA slot. I think I sent my last to recycling last year. I might have one slim PC left somewhere with Win98, CD drive and IDE HDD that has ISA. You'd not fit any MFM controller in it that I ever saw.
In late 1990s one of the kids had a PC with a full height 10 M byte MFM drive for a short while, i.e. size of two full size CD/DVD drive bays. My first HDD was a 5M byte on an Apple II that had its own PSU.

I found a photo of a development lab about 1983 a couple of weeks ago. Intel development system running IsisII and "cake cover" style 5 M Byte HDD pack (winchester?) in a floor standing box almost half the size of a filing cabinet. The desk also had the ACT Sirius 1 PC, which was seriously more advanced than the IBM PC in 1981. 800x 400 matte graphics screen vs goldfish bowl text only (CGA was an option). Sound, clock, I/O built in. 1.2M or 2.4M floppy vs 180K or 360K on IBM in 1981.

Largest SSDs here are 512G NVMe and HDDs is only 6 T. All PC/Laptop with SSD also have SATA HDD for /usr and /home
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Good luck on finding a controller and also a PC with an ISA slot. I think I sent my last to recycling last year. I might have one slim PC left somewhere with Win98, CD drive and IDE HDD that has ISA. You'd not fit any MFM controller in it that I ever saw.
In late 1990s one of the kids had a PC with a full height 10 M byte MFM drive for a short while, i.e. size of two full size CD/DVD drive bays. My first HDD was a 5M byte on an Apple II that had its own PSU.

I found a photo of a development lab about 1983 a couple of weeks ago. Intel development system running IsisII and "cake cover" style 5 M Byte HDD pack (winchester?) in a floor standing box almost half the size of a filing cabinet. The desk also had the ACT Sirius 1 PC, which was seriously more advanced than the IBM PC in 1981. 800x 400 matte graphics screen vs goldfish bowl text only (CGA was an option). Sound, clock, I/O built in. 1.2M or 2.4M floppy vs 180K or 360K on IBM in 1981.

Largest SSDs here are 512G NVMe and HDDs is only 6 T. All PC/Laptop with SSD also have SATA HDD for /usr and /home
Largest Hard drive I've found on Amazon UK is 22TB. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BSFRNQTF?th=1

Largest M.2 SSD is 8TB. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BFDKPWPR?th=1
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Old 08-28-2023, 08:46 AM   #28
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By here I meant my Library. Not Online etc. Amazon though is mostly domestic/retail.
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I may have hording issue with ebooks. I have 150 books plus on kendal, some of them are series of books. Other ebooks, probally 400 books and still counting??

The software is not so bad I guess, Moon reader Pro on my phone with kendal, and a sd card that has all of my books not on kendal. Just ebooks in epub format.

Windows 10 desktop computer, I have calibre, and Ice book reader Pro (while its no longer supported and updated) I bought 10 years ago for 100 bucks. Was stop being supported and updated 6 months ago maybe a year. Works amazing on windows 10. Oddly, Ice Book Reader works better and more well behaved than Calibre which is free.

Moon Reader Pro on android supports google voices that are free, so all my epubs can be read out loud. Calibre, and Ice Book Reader on windows, Well I bought 6 or 7 voices for them, they sound pretty real, so with wireless headphones, I can just listen to ebooks anytime I want.

Oh, and Audible Ebooks, Prob 60 of them. Just been working on all this since 2012 or sooner.

Lots of my epubs are duplicates, kendal books with drm removed, and converted to epub. That way I can read them with what ever software I want to.

While I wont go into details, all I can say is it seems like the new Kendal DRM has been figured out. I have NO idea how its done, I just have a way to find said books pretty easy. Thats pretty much all I will ever say about that.

Most of Kendal books are 5 bucks at most. I refuse to pay 15 bucks for a stupid ebook, if I have to have it that bad, sooner or later it will show up in the wild.
That’s not a lot I have a little over 1100 kindle ebooks, 400 kobo and 300 Nook ebooks. Around 400 audiobooks
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