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Originally Posted by shinew
So I'm just trying to understand the rationale for people who load & keep that many books like yourself, as I've wondered about this sometimes. I've always assumed that for most people who carry this many books, they just have this slightly obsessive urge to always bring their entire collection with them wherever they go without actually reading half or quarter of them in the coming year. But you seem to have practical reasons for doing it.
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Speaking for myself, having my whole collection on the Kindle is like wandering into my public library (which I no longer do since the advent of this wondrous device!). I can browse among my 1,500 books (and no, I almost never re-read....) and pick out what takes my fancy there and then. No messing around with cables to sideload, instant gratification. Yes I probably do read a couple of books concurrently, particularly if one is non-fiction when I vary between that and a fast read for variety.
And to answer one more of the questions: yes, I did pretty much slap the whole collection on in a few sideloading sessions (split to prevent the well-known choking which comes with indexing) and since then have no need to add any more for a while. Like many I suspect, I get through a book or three a week (and then delete them from the Kindle though I always have at least one backup and a full Kindle mirror image on my hard drive).