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Originally Posted by queentess
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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Jump to conclusions much?
This is what I meant earlier about attitudes here.
Did I say anything about downloading "1,000's of files of mixed quality"? No, I didn't. I was trying to figure out and explain why the
nature of the media itself devalues itself in
my mind, trying to figure out why I don't place the same importance on a digital ebook file that I place on a physical book. But all you took from that was what you wanted to see - I must be a "hoarding pirate" because I have large storage needs and can't readily locate items ergo I don't sufficiently value things like you apparently do.
Just because I have a lot of storage sources and don't have a black-or-white attitude toward the Dark Net doesn't mean that I am a "hoarding pirate". I've had computers for a few decades now (my first computer was a Commodore 64); what hard drives that still work from previous computers are in external cases - with all of the data from those periods of time. I
buy MP3 albums online. I
buy ebooks online. I
buy audiobooks via my Audible.com subscription, and I
buy MP3 audiobooks. I
buy games from online gaming sites via subscription. I
buy software. I've digitalized my
purchased music and video collections (LP's, 45's & CD's, VHS & DVD's) and my over-the-air TV recordings. I've digitalized my
purchased cassette audiobooks. I create digital art images - that takes up a lot of storage space, as do all of the digital images and videos that I upload from my camera and phone. I love freeware and shareware and am constantly trying out new programs. I keep copies of all the applications I've ever installed, all the fonts, all the plug-ins, all the extensions, prior versions of consistently used programs, etc. I periodically burn off and delete book and music folders that are on my HD. I burn off copies of
purchased DVD's before I give them to the kidlets in my family. I periodically do complete backups of the drives on both computers. I need GB's & GB's of storage, so I use external drives and burn items to CD/DVD.
It's nice that you have "a bookshelf" to carefully place your book. I have bookcases where my books are placed. I have plastic storage boxes where my books are placed. I have rented storage space where my books are placed. I keep every book I've ever bought. I keep every form of music media I've purchased. So I do "hoard" - only not in the manner you'd like to believe.
It's nice that you use Calibre to keep your books; I find it to be a very good program for conversion but consider it to be awkward, storage-wise, when used in conjuction with multiple readers, and see no point in keeping ebooks in its library taking up space on my hard drive when I've already loaded them onto my ereader. Hard drive space is valuable on a laptop.
So it's not a matter of a facile "easy come, easy go" attitude. I'm sorry that that's all that you were able to take from a post where I was seriously trying to explain something.