Just to set the record straight,
My posting was tongue in cheek.
I see over and over again where people say that
THE major problem with e-ink is the page flicker, or
THE major problem with touch screens is the smears and finger prints on the screen. People will dislike whatever they want to.
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Originally Posted by boxcorner
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However, I don't understand why some people bother storing large numbers of e-books on their readers. Is it to impress people who don't own a reader?  |
My guess is that your emphasis is on the word "storing". I think that I've seen somewhere on MR someone having more that 15,000 books on their reader. I don't think that that number was the highest, but that’s the only number I can recall.
I usually have between 100 - 115 books on at a time. These are books that I
will read. After I read them I delete them from the reader. Calibre keeps track of the books I've read incase I ever want to re-read them at a later date.
"Is it to impress people...."
For the ones with over 10,000 book libraries on their reader, I think so. Whether it's to say "Look how smart I am" or "Looks at me!!! I'ss gots me 50,000 books". I do wonder, however, about the quality of those books. Were they paid for? Sure.
How many little kids pack their readers with every torrent download they can find, only to be toting around books that, if they knew, would embarrass the hell out of them.
The rest, those with just a few hundred books or even a thousand, on their reader, just like to keep their "library" handy. I think that's neat, cool, whatever.