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02-12-2013, 06:08 AM | #47 | |
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Like Ripplinger, however, I keep the books on my PC and backed up to other media for security. I keep about 300 books on my Nook. After I have read and removed a few dozen of the books, I add some from the TBR pile. It is unlikely that I will live long enough to read all of the books, but what I have learned is that I need to give every book a try because there is no telling in advance which is the gem among the trash. My experience has been that for every really well-written, captivating book in my TBR pile, there are a dozen that should be burned at the stake as insults to intelligence. As for the books I have bought from B&N, my habit is to archive those I have read for at least a year and then review them to see whether I should permanently deltee them from the online storage (I will still have a local copy). Something else I should note. I have also found that when I do read a book from the TBR pile and I discover that I really like the author's style, I go out and purchase other books by the author and read them immediately. This slows down my efforts to reduce the TBR pile. So to answer Don's question, no, I won't be doing any wholesale pruning and I will keep buying ebooks and adding them to my TBR. |
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02-12-2013, 06:15 AM | #48 | |
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02-12-2013, 08:13 AM | #49 |
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I add to books to my library when i mean to read then after finishing the current book. I have a TBR list on goodread, twhere i note books that might be intersting. But that TBR is about 10 books long.
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02-12-2013, 09:34 AM | #50 |
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Now that I have a Paperwhite (less internal storage) I use "Send to Amazon cloud reader" as the destination for anything I get cheap or free to read at some future date (including things I have read and want to be able to read again).
For freebies, indie and otherwise, if it looks interesting, I usually start reading reading in the cloud. It either grabs me within three or four pages or it doesn't. If it does, I download to keep reading. I think the traditionally published books are generally better edited and proofed than indie, but I find that no guarantee that the story will match my taste, although obviously it matched someone's. This is why Baskin-Robbins offers 31 flavors. |
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I tend to cycle. I'll go a few months downloading a bunch of freebies (maybe 20-30) then I'll spend a few months wondering where my sanity went and clearing the majority of them out (maybe 3-5 survivors). All of this happens in Calibre. I never look at my store bookshelves after the initial download. The fact that all the stores equate "bookshelf" with "giant unsorted pile" keeps me from ever looking in them. In my imagination my kindle shelf is one of those houses from any of the hoarding shows, if I open the door it will all topple over and crush me. I'll just stay over in the tidy and organized Calibre reading room thanks.
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3 books / 1000 pages a day? I do not believe you, except if you prove to me that you're a speed reading God and can keep that up for hours and hours on end day after day. And even if you can you'd probably not have the time.
I've said it earlier in this forum to other people who claim to read 500-1000 books or even more a year. I don't believe it, don't intend to change that opinion and I'm not willing to discuss it. Last edited by Katsunami; 02-12-2013 at 09:41 PM. |
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People can run 400m several times faster than me, for one. Do you disbelieve that? Or the fact there are people that can speak 12 more languages than you can? My parents are both teachers. I was reading when I was 2. They read a lot, were good at it. So of course you can have genetic predisposition. Much like the child of a couple of professional athletes is likely to be good at stuff involving balls or running around. So if you start early and practice a lot and teach yourself to read faster and comprehend more and do it a lot you can get better at it. Amazing concept, eh? |
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Thats really something! 1000 books in a year thats kind of mind blowing. To achieve that number reading a certain amount of books per day must be a daily goal. On the original topic, I once also trapped by grab this eBook its free. Have stopped about a year ago after realizing that: 1) I forget why I grabbed the book in the first place 2 )Realizing that I really wont be able to read all these books and at the end of the day if I did not grab a book when it was free. If I am really interested in the book I will go buy it. Life is simpler when I am not a eBook hoarder |
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I think that just explains the quality of some of your reviews Blue Tyson (that I've read on amazon). "I've read War and Peace, it was about Russia." That kind of thing.
To answer the OP, yep I cull too. I regularly do that with physical books too. |
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