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Originally Posted by l_macd
This is an interesting thread!
Ok, I think I can appreciate being indecisive, wanting to be able to pick any book that takes your fancy and just the basic desire to be able to carry around your entire library. But immaterial of whether or not collections work with ease, or your ereader can handle folders, or even if you are happy to use cloud storage and access it direct from your ereader, nothing can beat the ease and simplicity of browsing and choosing which book to read in a proper library management tool like Calibre. Can it?
I can see the attraction, and why not use the space available on your ereader, but the plus points of having your entire library isn't worth the trade off that you lose from improved browsing via Calibre. To me anyway.
Love it, thankfully my mum would never do that to me...... I hope! |
Let me provide another perspective. Unlike most other readers on this thread, I re-read books. It's usually 5-10 years between reads, but I do re-read. Also my life is sufficiently busy that I don't read more than 1-3 books a week.
With that as background, I have alway felt that a computer (or bookshelf) 100 miles away was useless when I want to read
XYZ and it's not on the e-reader. So I use an old gen e-reader, that has a replacable battery and software that is computer oriented, and uses a folder structure. I don't have (or want) WiFi, phone links, or other "conveniences". I buy and load in blocks, and I load onto external storage (SD chip). I then backup the SD chip to my computer. I keep a well organized folder structure, and know where everything is. I have multiple copies of the same e-reader, if one fails (and none of them have yet), I just pop out the SD chip and pop it in a new e-reader. Occasionally I'll take the most recent backup and copy it to several other chips (for each backup e-reader I keep).
OCD? Maybe, but I do exactly the same thing for my music files, and use a music player (Sansa Clip+) that runs folder based software (RockBox) and external SD chips (in this case microSD).
More work? Yep! Once...Otherwise, it's just folder-to-folder copies. Load the file once, and it'll always be there (and on the backups). (Right now, I just bought the Blue Oyster Cult's 16 disc library from Columbia, and I'm ripping down to FLAC files.) Get done, labeling every track, and load on the chip. Listen it that piece of work for the rest of my life, no matter where I go, or what I do...