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Originally Posted by emalvick
Hmm... I like the Dropbox idea although I haven't really got an idea of how Dropbox works itself (might be useful beyond books).
I tend to have more books rather than less and use Calibre to set up my collections. I have found that things slow down when I get up over 100 books. I'm not sure it is a specific book because I've also had indexing problems and can usually find those quickly.
I do find having a lot of books frustrating from a browsing point of view. I have about one to two pages of collections including a currently reading one, but I like to sort them by title as it keeps it orderly for me. This of course gets a bit crazy when there are many books on the device. It's not horrible as I usually limit myself to the first couple of pages of collections (special characters keep those at the front), but it still could be better.
Something like Dropbox may be good for cutting myself down to very few books, but I'll have to see how flexible that service is.
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Dropbox is great! You get 2.5GB for signing up using someone's referral link. For each Referral you get 250MB more space. It's a Free service but they do have paid plans if you want more space that way.
You just download the program to your PC which creates a Folder in your Documents folder. You can then move your Calibre Library there or just the ebooks you want access to.
Anything that is put in your Dropbox folder is uploaded to your online Dropbox automatically. It then can be access in a few different ways.
I keep my ebooks on my Dropbox. I have a Android phone that has the Dropbox App installed so it's great for transferring files to my PC. I also use it to download epubs books to read on my phone. I also use it to download mobi books then use my email app to email the books to my Kindle.
On the Kindle I just log into the website and find the book and download it. There is a real time search which is really helpful in finding it fast. So I don't need to be near my PC to send myself a book or get from my Dropbox. I can do it on the Kindle or through my phone.
