Well, firstly, even 1000 books only takes up about 10% or less of my iPad's capacity, and since I don't watch movies on it, I have plenty of space, so thats a non-issue for me.
Of course I have all my books in Calibre on my desktop and dropbox and backed up on a portable hard drive, so security of the books is not an issue either.
What is an issue is being able to browse that library and sort it when you are away from your desktop/Calibre. You have to admit (surely?) that the Dropbox browser is not ideal. The Calibre library has the books in separate folders one for each author. You can't see the covers, sort books according to theme, search the library etc. If the books are in Marvin, or even in iBooks despite its deficiencies, you can organise and browse them to find a book that suits your mood.
Does this help?
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Originally Posted by Faterson
To me at least, it seems incomprehensible why someone would choose the inferior iBooks reading experience just because Marvin won't directly load all 2000 books from Dropbox for you.
In fact, I've always advocated not storing hundreds of books directly on our e-reader devices, but preferably in the cloud, in those Calibre folders. They are always at hand there, in case you need them. Or is anyone actually reading 2000 books simultaneously?
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