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astrangerhere · 12-07-2010, 09:43 AM

When I was a kid, my dad sat me down and we watched star trek every night. One of the memories that sticks out the most to me about this was Captain Picard sitting reading Shakespeare on a datapad. Turns out he had an entire library at his fingertips wit that little datapad. I was jealous beyond belief.

So when we fast-foward 20 years to my lovely and beautiful partner buying me a Nook (Classic) with the biggest memory card it would support, I put everything I had on it. Calibre has helped in cleaning it all up and making it uniform, and I couldn't be happier. When B&N updated their firmware a few weeks ago to include bookshelves (which really is just glorfied tagging), I was in heaven. I have probably about 150 B&N books (most from the free classics promotion over the summer) on the internal memory and about 1500 on the SD card.

I have everything backed up on a portable hard drive, but my Nook IS my library now. I have replaced most of my DTB collection now and am donating them to US Soldiers as they are requested as part of a book donation program.

12-07-2010, 09:43 AM	#56
astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,755 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	When I was a kid, my dad sat me down and we watched star trek every night. One of the memories that sticks out the most to me about this was Captain Picard sitting reading Shakespeare on a datapad. Turns out he had an entire library at his fingertips wit that little datapad. I was jealous beyond belief. So when we fast-foward 20 years to my lovely and beautiful partner buying me a Nook (Classic) with the biggest memory card it would support, I put everything I had on it. Calibre has helped in cleaning it all up and making it uniform, and I couldn't be happier. When B&N updated their firmware a few weeks ago to include bookshelves (which really is just glorfied tagging), I was in heaven. I have probably about 150 B&N books (most from the free classics promotion over the summer) on the internal memory and about 1500 on the SD card. I have everything backed up on a portable hard drive, but my Nook IS my library now. I have replaced most of my DTB collection now and am donating them to US Soldiers as they are requested as part of a book donation program.