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Originally Posted by bcgirl
Every book has a story, a memory, was a gift, or was bought by myself... How do you feel about your book collection?
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None of my books have stories, apart from 10 hardcovers or so that are either out of print (in Dutch *and* English), or are very old (only one of them).
All of the rest are paperbacks bought either online or second hand, and I'm almost done replacing them with ebooks. The recent huge Kobo codes almost allowed me to do it, if not for the fact that there are some books that are not available at Kobo.
I'm actually in the process of burning... eh... selling/giving away my books. Maybe I'll start building an "epic book case" one day, that will only contain hardcovers of my absolute very highest favorites, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are less than 50 books on that list.
Putting 50.000 books on a hard drive is peanuts.
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My music collection has been ripped to digital FLAC format 100%. If I want a CD, I buy it second hand, rip it, and then just give it away if someone wants it. I might actually give it back to the second hand store it came from, at some point.
Nowadays, ripping to FLAC is not prohibitive with regard to storage anymore. (Except when you own 10.000 CD's or so. Then you might need a few extra hard drives.)
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My DVD-collection on the other hand, is a different matter. There isn't a good digital alternative yet, apart from downloading movies (which is still legal in the Netherlands). Some services such as Netflix are coming, but obviously, they don't allow you to keep movies. Also, there is not yet an almost universal lossless format for video like there's FLAC for music, and if there was, it would take huge amounts of storage.
Therefore I'm settling at this approach:
- Movies I think I'd want to see: Download, or Netflix them if they have it.
- If it's a good movie I'd possibly rewatch: buy it on DVD (cheap)
- If it's a movie I just have to have: buy it on blu-ray (can be expensive)
I've already started my "epic DVD case". It holds Blu-ray discs of my absolute favorites, DVD's of movies I like but are not favorites, and I'm giving the rest away.
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For some reason, I care less about the movies than about the (digital) books. I can watch a movie, and not have it on DVD. I don't have to have every movie I ever saw; my favorites and the ones I like are enough. On the other hand, it seems I must have every book I ever read.
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Oh, and then there are the pictures. They've been fully digital for me since 2004. I have no physical pictures, apart from those my mother took before 2004.
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Because of the huge space requirements of books, DVD's, and picture albums, I'm quite happy to have all of it digitally, but I understand it can't be like that for everybody; you'll need to have the skills to manage such a digital collection; skills you don't need to manage a physical collection.
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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
My paper book collection, which was a decent size, is long gone. I've got a couple dozen left, which are going into a pile for the yard sale this summer. I'm finished, not only with books, but with stuff in general. If I haven't used it in more than a year, it's going. 2014 is the Year of the Purge.
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Heh. GMTA. I'm also purging a lot of stuff and in the case of books and music, replacing it with digital equivalents. I like to have a clean house, but I can understand that some people may think my house is not "lived in", if you know what I mean.