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Originally Posted by Stingo
I think that you misconstrue as collecting on the Kindle a completely different motivation. I have several hundred books on my Kindle. Generally they are either books that I want to read or books that I want to keep available as a reference. For example references, are, bible, koran, dhamapada, certain science texts, certain historical texts, certain complete collections(Shakespeare) or poetry books (Complete Ginsberg, Complete Creeley). Once I read a book or decide that I am no longer interested, it comes off the Kindle. If I run across a book that I am interested in reading I add it in even if I don't intend to read it immediately.
I have about 14 collections "Currently Reading (never more than 3), Spanish books, History, Biography, SF, non-fiction, fiction, fiction Asia, poetry...etc... A book may appear in more than one collection. I recently set up and put out of my mind the plug board for naming collections. I devote very little time to tinkering with books on Calibre except at the point that I add a book to the library.
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References make excellent collector items. I have hundreds of Bibles in three languages going back to 1930 and collect eBibles on my Kindles even if I rarely use them. I collect Bible Apps as well. Plus, I collect all kinds of Bible Dictionaries, Commentaries and Daily Prayer Books. One of my Collection names are Bible Study Items.
There is a site called Logos where thousands of Bible Reference eBooks are available at up to $ 1,500 for this kind of eCollection. I've stopped using them since I moved on to Amazon.