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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Like you I don't care how many books anyone has on their ereader with the exception of my mother who would call at 3 AM and tell me she had no good books on her reader could I send her one(My mother is 87 and I manage her Amazon account)
Most of it is me. I've always borrowed and bought books in bulk when I had the money. 20-30 would be average. Once I bought over 100 books at a going out of business sale and would have bought more if I could have figured out a way to carry more. (I had a backpack and a wheeled cart, and I am sure everyone on the bus thought I was a baglady)
I prefer to make my decisions at once as well. I have four ereaders, with generally the same books on each but two I have series shelves and two I have authors shelves. Need to change the driver configuration depending on which one I am sideloading to or chaos erupts. I have them this way because sometimes I want to browse by author and sometimes I want to browse by series. I know I can have both but it suits my weird brain better to have them separate.
I like my books a certain way so I generally convert first and sideload. I use calibre custom columns to keep track of the books on the readers. Periodically I compare what is on the device to what I had put on the device and mark the deleted ones as read.
I read 20 - 50 books a month so this is a lot of piddling around to do on a book by book basis. It is a lot of piddling around anyway, but it is what want to do.
So if I have several hundred or more books on my readers that I know I want to read, I am seldom limited in choice. I can hook up to calibre every two months or so, update everything (checking what I have read, deleting the read ones from all readers, putting on a bunch more which I have already marked in calibre) in an hour usually. Doing it one by one would take me a lot more time overall and would become a chore I would resent.
Like I said, it is just me.
Helen
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My mother has Macular Degeneration. I bought her a Nook HD+ after I asked her if she could see well enough using mine. The fonts are not even the largest. I have her on my account and also side load books that she tells me she would like to read. Her unabashed happiness when she opened the box on her birthday was a beautiful thing to see. At least she does not call me at 3:00 AM.
Apache