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Originally Posted by sirmaru
What you folks are doing is actually COLLECTING books. You buy large numbers of books and then customize their metadata with Calibre. Then you store them on your eReaders and / or PC's. From those books you pick one to read and then leave it in your Library. You tend to build large collections of books and keep them all.
That is similar to the old days when folks had a Library Room in their house and purchased large numbers of books to fill those shelves. They had many methods of filing them one being the one used by Public Libraries known as the Dewey Decimal System - analogous to Calibre customization of metadata today.
They then chose one book to read and when finished placed it back on the appropriate shelf of the Library Room.
On the other hand, back in those days I would receive one book per month from the Book of the Month Club, read it and then discard it awaiting the book to be received the next month. I never accumulated a library of books.
Today, I only purchase one or two eBooks from Amazon and, when finished, I place them in a Collection of never to be accessed eBooks again. I keep a record of all eBooks to be purchased in an Excel Spreadsheet with their price and number of pages. I then sort that Spreadsheet by Pages / Dollar of Price and chose the highest number to read. I always choose one History eBook and one Biography eBook to read at one time.
Thus, eBooks I have read using Microsoft PC eReader from 1990 to about 2005 are lost forever to me. The same happened with Adobe eBooks I bought in those years.
In about 2005 I only purchased Sony eBooks with their eReaders and now they are lost to me as well.
Today I only buy eBooks from Amazon for reading - never collecting. After I read an eBook I will store it now in a Collection by Category - 7 Collections. I will never look at those eBooks again. However, I also store all my highlights and notes at a site setup by Amazon for reference if I need them. So far I have never needed them.
Thus, the big division in eBook usage is between Primary Collectors and Primary Readers. I class myself in the latter category.
On the other hand I have collected songs on wire recorders from as far back as 1930. I have a huge song collection now mostly converted to MP3 files. I do pick songs for playback by streaming them to my Grace Internet radios from my PC. I also store many of those songs on my Kindle Fire HDX 2013 and frequently play them from there.
I used to use MediaMonkey to manage the metadata of those songs in a similar way as many now use Calibre for eBooks. However, Amazon has made it so easy to buy songs now and so cheap (less than $ 1.29 per song), that I rely on them these days totally and have given up most of my uses of MediaMonkey. Amazon now fulfills those needs for me.
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I tried to be polite but excuse me did I not state the topic for ADVANCED USERS? Once again you are inserting yourself into a conversation where you have no direct knowledge or any useful information to add. Tell me in all that you just typed at which part is the part where you are adding relevant information to the topic? I'm sorry but I do not care for what you classify as a reader or a collector, you adding a label does not in any way change what I am and what I use my device for. I think we have already proven in other posts that I outread you on a bad day. What is it you hope to accomplish with this info? Other than the fact you use Mediamonkey, my favorite music program btw and I will not mention how many tracks I have in that library, you have not said anything that is helpful. Can you please leave this conversation unless you can help in any way in the discussion??