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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
30s, like me. Trust me. It's not hard to google something plus the word torrent and download it.
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As it happens, I have uTorrent seeding in the background. I'm aware of the potentials.
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Given my budget, I can make time. I can't make a whole lot of extra money. I already work some overtime, and I've got kids. Only so many hours. But I can crunch a few books on calibre while the kids are watching Dora or playing or whatever, from time to time.
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Depends on how much crunching the books need, and what sort of output you find acceptable.
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I dunno, I always have plenty of time to finish books, but I read a couple of pages a minute. If I don't have class, I can read 2-3 books a week, just in my spare minutes. More if I'm cutting TV watching time or video game time out to read instead.
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I don't watch TV or play most video games (save a few ancient things ported from Unix and VMS). I do spend too much time in places like this.
And I'm a fast reader, too, though how fast is dependent on the content. Fiction is normally a blitz. Non-fiction may differ. (I'm reading philosophy at the moment, which requires "stop and ponder" breaks to make sure I've gotten the concept and the implications.)
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And you're surely in the minority with having a giant excess to read. I think most of us big reader (non-casual) types are more budget constrained than time constrained, considering books (especially ebooks) are like $8 a pop. Price matters. Lower price will generally mean higher volume for a reason.
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It's not all that hard to get a giant excess when there is a lot of stuff in the public domain you want to read and it's relatively trivial to convert to a form readable on your device. All told, I have about 4,000 electronic volumes and counting.
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Dennis