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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.
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.
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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The Calbre Virtual Library is a great enabler