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Originally Posted by BelleZora
Although I always had shelves of paper books, I was never tempted to hoard them because I couldn't stand clutter. Something about ebooks has freed my apparent inner hoarder. They are all neatly organized in Calibre. I just sorted them out, keeping only the ones I really want to read in the near future in my main library...739 books. Never would I have allowed myself that many paper books. I don't even want to mention how many books, mostly freebies and public domain, are in secondary Calibre libraries.
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Waaah, you're me. I even organize my libraries the same. One main, where all bought and free "intend to read" books are, perfectly tagged and organized and all, and secondary libraries containing huge amounts of PD and Freebee books. (Some contain entire sites. If I discover the site's organizational pattern, it's often SOL, and I have a lot of freebee's.)
Some PD books I have at least in 10 different versions of. If I want a PD book, I'll find it, move some versions in my "Workplace" library, pick the best, ditch the rest, and fix the best one up for my primary library.
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Still, as hobbies go, collecting ebooks on sale is not really terribly expensive or detrimental to health. Before buying my first ereader and discovering MR (and Calibre and Alf: responsible for making hoarding feel secure and joyful) I could not have imagined that I would own so many books.
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So true. Now that I use an e-reader, I have more books than I could ever imagine, cheaper than I could ever imagine.
Sometimes I wonder if it doesn't degrade reading. With paperbacks, I'd carefully select what I wanted to read, because it was expensive, and when I was out of money as a student, I'd re-read. (I read English. The libraries in the Netherlands have VERY SMALL English sections.)
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Full disclosure: I buy many more full price ebooks than I ever bought paper books, preferring second hand book stores. I often regret that those wonderful shops lost my business.
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Yes... I like books, I love libraries, and I would love to have my very own private library with 10.000 paper books in it... I love book stores and second hand shops (if they sell good books that don't fall apart and don't look gross), but e-readers are just so much more convenient, after stripping the DRM from the books.