Thread: Big libraries on Kindle 3?
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Old 10-28-2010, 01:09 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by niceboy View Post
Still waiting for my Kindle 3 and still idly wondering about this and that.

My question:
Do you keep very many items on your Kindle 3? The Amazon promo stuff says up to 3,500 book can be stored on the 4GB of memory. Do any of you maintain big libraries on the device or do you just keep maybe at most a dozen files loaded? Is maintaining a large library practical given the GUI? Do you use the collections? I find it extraordinary that from what I have read items appear within the collections randomly? That is so strange... the device indexes everything but doesn't arrange listing alphabetically in the collections.

Hope this question isn't annoying given that I'll have an answer for myself soon but still I am interested in what other people think in any case.
Early in I put about 1000 books on my Kindle 3. It felt like it took forever to finish indexing all the books (forever = "more than one night while I was sleeping"), but as long as I was willing to sort by most recent book it was manageable to read books on it with that number.

I've since decided that's too many when it comes to poking through for unread books. I now float at between 100 and 200 books. I don't have ADD/ADHD, but I have a VERY short attention span when it comes to reading and I like to concurrently read multiple genres and multiple series within those genres.

For example, at this time, I'm reading:
the 4th/last book in the Four Lords of the Diamond by Jack Chalker (Medusa, I always forget the sub title). Sci-fi with fantastic pseudo-magic elements.
"If I Pay Thee Not In Gold" by Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey. Fantasy with amazons & magic.
"A Free Man of Color" by Barbara Hambly (Book 1 of Benjamin January). Historical Mystery, set in 1830's New Orleans Creole society.
"Child of Venus" by Pamela Sargent (hard science fiction).

Using the Calibre plugboards feature to edit book titles in the book sort, finding books in a series is SO MUCH easier. I don't really use collections, the plugboards series sort is all I need at this time.
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