04-29-2013, 12:46 PM | #31 |
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Assuming that they're easily replaceable books from reputable sites, cull them. You'll probably find that you're interests change over time. It may be because something more interesting comes your way or it may be because you tire of a particular type of book. This means that you'll probably end up searching your library then the internet for something to read a couple of years down the road. That means that any time spent acquiring excessive numbers of books, managing excessive numbers of books, then searching through your library and not finding anything interesting will all be a waste of your time.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with keeping a few months supply at hand. You may also want to keep freebies that are still under copyright, because there is nothing in copyright law that says that authors have to offer those freebies indefinitely. |
04-30-2013, 03:20 PM | #32 |
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No. I've always said you can never have enough books and as e books don't take up any physical space this is even more true for me.
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05-02-2013, 08:42 PM | #33 |
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05-03-2013, 10:14 AM | #34 |
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I have about 500.000 books, including 70 gigabyte of Russian books.
This was too much as I will have to spend a few years to sort them all and won't have time to read them. But it was a typical case of collector-frenzy fueled by the interweb. |
05-03-2013, 12:08 PM | #35 |
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I only have a few hundred on my Kindle, and I'm already forgetting some of them. They might not take up any physical space, but they also don't have anything to remind you you own them.
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05-03-2013, 01:17 PM | #36 |
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No .
It wouldn't let me just say "no"...I got the warning that my message was too short...it has to be at least 5 characters long. Sooo. Here it goes again: RE: Is it possible to have too many ebooks? No |
05-03-2013, 03:04 PM | #37 |
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Anything from Project Gutenberg that you aren't ready to read yet, delete and get it back if/when you ever decide to read it. Anything else, just add into a new library and forget about until you run out of the stuff thats actually interesting.
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Of course books will cost more in the future so maybe the economics would work out. But then again, you might also end up with a bunch of books that you're not interested in reading because your tastes have changed. Or you could find your vision is so bad you need to take up a different hobby. |
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05-03-2013, 09:10 PM | #39 |
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I am an avid booklover, but I think you can have too many ebooks...Project Gutenburg makes it very easy to download lots and lots of free ebooks, more than enough to read in two lifetimes!!. I have decided to only keep unread books on my ereader (I keep a separate backup of my complete ebook library) and to only buy/download freebies to my TBR pile to give me a choice of new reading material depending on my mood, but I like to keep that list fairly short and easily manageable. For me the most important thing is reading the books I have and then moving on to buy some new ones.
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On Amazon you can also search under 'Delphi Classics'. Last edited by pagansoul; 05-22-2013 at 08:39 AM. |
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05-22-2013, 11:54 AM | #41 |
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I have about 2000 ebooks in my files right now, the majority of which are classics. I like to keep those because the majority of what I read are classics. I have them somewhat organized into Calibre although I just found out about plug-ins which I think will be even better for organizing. I DON"T accumulate lots of freebies. Just because it's free doesn't mean I want it. I only download freebies that I might want to read later. For example, I don't download any suspense freebies because I won't ever read them.
I think as long as you can still find the books you want and you are not spending hours trying to find it, you can't have too many ebooks! |
05-28-2013, 08:41 AM | #42 |
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Save them elsewhere. You don't need to have them on the reader, but no point in totally getting rid of them.
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05-28-2013, 01:26 PM | #43 |
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If your hard drive is becoming full, save them onto an external one. I do this with books I've read. Ebooks, unlike pbooks, do not create physical clutter, but having too many on your reader may slow it down.
Ideally (she says hypocritically) have fewer than 50 on your reader and the rest on your hard drive. |
05-28-2013, 03:17 PM | #44 |
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The big problem I have, is that I save my library on a 32g memory stick because I use it across multiple computers and I have run out of space on that. Can anyone recommend a 64g flash drive that wont break the bank and is reliable.
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05-28-2013, 03:38 PM | #45 |
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If you don't intend to carry those books everywhere all the time, I'd recommend a 2.5 or even 1.8 inch external harddrive.
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