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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I think a coworker of mine who loves the darkside might have 10k-20k in his Calibre library. I've got about 7500 in mine, and it's still quite fast. I have to say the worst of it is the effort required to get all the metadata downloaded. I've got about a thousand KDP freebies needing the metadata downloaded (thanks, ATDrake!), and while you can run a mass update, I prefer to check each book so that I can fix the cover if necessary.
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When you reach that many ebooks, you probably have to start wanting to see the world end, just so you would have time to read. Curating a collection that size has really got to eat into your reading time!
Reminds me of the
Twilight Zone episode featuring Burgess Meredith (he was the Penguin on the Adam West version of
Batman, and Mickey from
Rocky) as a librarian who just happens to be inside the vault of a huge library when the Russians launch a Cold War nuclear attack. He survives the apocalypse and goes outside and the world is over, and he gleefully builds stacks of books, one for each year's worth of reading. He's ecstatic at the prospect of having 'time enough' for reading.
Then his glasses fall off and he crushes them underfoot, and staggers off, blindly, into the wasteland.
ANYWAY! What do you do when you've got more books than you're ever likely to be able read? Maybe it's just nice to have so many choices.