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Old 02-01-2011, 10:32 AM   #185
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Originally Posted by Xanthe View Post
I know where all of my paper books are, and can usually pinpoint the bookshelf or box from memory. I don't know precisely where a particular ebook is - it can be on one of two computers, on one of the multiple external drives I have, or it can be burned off with multiple files to a CD or DVD and stashed in a drawer or in an album somewhere here. I find that if there is an ebook I particularly like, I'll subsequently buy it in paper so that I have a "real" copy of the book.
Ah, the signs of a hoarding pirate...

As soon as I buy a book, I download it and put it into Calibre so it's organized and I know right where it is. Just as I would carefully place a paperbook purchase on my bookshelf. But if I downloaded 1,000's of files of mixed quality and burned them to a disk and stashed them in a drawer... then yes, those are worth nothing to me.

Perhaps your problem is not that you don't/can't value data files, but that you don't value the specific files that you have. Easy come, easy go, and all that.
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