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Originally Posted by sirmaru
You can read 1,000 books per year and just throw out the old ones. I have NEVER ever re-read any book but the Bible.
Collectors of eBooks are a unique breed and the vast majority of readers are NOT Collectors.
However, I have been collecting music on wire recorders since 1930, tape after 1960 and mp3 after 1990. I have thousands of songs collected in at least 5 languages. Most folks don't do that either.
By the way, all the eBooks I read range from 600 to 1,000 pages and usually cost about $ 10. Someone, who collected those types of eBooks, would have spent $ 60,000 to collect those eBooks. That is a lot of money for a HOBBY.
I really doubt that Amazon will ever cater to eBook Collectors. Collectors would have a better chance trying to deal with Calibre to expand their software to meet their needs.
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I do not understand why you think just because you do not do it, or you do not collect it others are wrong and should not do it because it is not your way of doing things. First of all, I get the shakes just thinking of a "reader" stating he reads a book and then discards it. Will I sit here and preach to you about the error of this statement? No, because that is your choice and your right. Do everyone use their kindles the same way, with the same amount of purchases? Once again, no. Since I purchased my first kindle, the k2, Amazon has been touting how the user can carry around thousands of books at once. So why then are you denegrating users for doing such? I do not understand why you own both a pw and a hdx, obviously it is not for reading since you read so few books, As the previous poster stated, it is about priorities and abilities. Just because you did not have the luxury or make the choice of reading until after you retired, that does not negate the fact that others did not make those same choices. These devices were made for readers, and readers both read and purchase according to their own priorities. I doubt very seriously Amazon would care less how if the user is "collecting" books, as long as they are collecting them from their estore. For the amount of money I have spent at Amazon I could have purchased my own company and designed an ereader to my specifications. And while my library only has @3500 books in it, ALL of them purchased through Amazon, I have read through two-thirds of the ones that I purchased for myself. The other third are books I've purchased for my mother and my husband. And since those are not mine, I do not want to see them on my kindle because none of us read the same type of books, nor do any of us organize our devices the same. Which means the current solution is not helpful, and it hinders my reading experience.
I hope I have not insulted you but I think I need to stop responding to you, your comments are coming off as condescending and offensive.
