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Old 01-22-2014, 07:58 PM   #2333
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Originally Posted by beckybug3 View Post
My library is about 1500- 2000 books. My Touch keeps 'losing' the expansion micro SD card. Can anyone suggest a good large library capable ereader?
What do you mean by "losing" the card? FWIW, I've got about 750 books on my Glo's internal card, and I don't have much trouble with it; its behavior is still snappy. All the same, I do back up its database about once a week, when I connect it to my computer to add books to the card. I also practice proper hygiene, deleting books from the Kobo's interface so it can properly update that database, rather than deleting stuff through the PC connection.

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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
The reality is that you really can archive lots of those books to keep a reasonable number on your device.
I generally archive my full library to two local drives (for redundancy), and keep unread books plus a (relative) few favorites on my device. That way, I can instantly read new material and it's almost no trouble to restore already-read books to the device...even when the outside network's down.

According to Goodreads, I own 681 unread ebooks. I have a few on my rarely-used Kindle, but most of those are on my Glo. I also show 270 finished ebooks, of which less than 100 are on that Glo - namely, the stuff I'm prone to wanting at my fingertip even though I've already read it. (My Tom Holt collection is in that category; I'm prone to evangelizing about his work, and nothing does the trick like being able to pull up one of his books and let someone read the first couple of pages.) I'm trying to knock that number down a bit, which I do by deleting most books from the Glo as I finish reading them.

In theory, if I keep my purchases under control, that number should stay constant or shrink over time. In point of fact, not so much; I'm paying more attention to my Ent cemetery this year, trying to shrink that tangible pile while letting new acquisitions accumulate electronically. After all, electrons and pixels don't take up much space, they're easier to get at, and buying a cheap ecopy of a physical book means I can get rid of the physical copy.
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