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rraod · 04-12-2014, 01:56 PM

By nature since my childhood, I was an avid collector. This collection habit has evolved with my age. In childhood I used to collect, matchbox covers and postage stamps. Then I moved on to photography at the age of 15. I still have the B&W 6x6 negatives taken during those days. I collected family and friends photos both B&W and color (35mm) and now digital photos. I have a project to convert all my old photo collection to digital by scanning, and I bought a flatbed scanner for that purpose. Sometimes I scan these photos and due to hundreds of them, I get tired soon and pause the project. But I aimed to complete this project. I have passed on these scanned photo collections to my relatives and friends making them happy.

I was a voracious reader and used to read various books mostly classics and thrillers since I was below 10 years. During 70's the novels and hobby magazines (How and Why series, old Popular Science issues, Chip and other computer magazines) were cheap in India and I used to buy lots of them till year 2000. Though I lost many favorite books by friendly borrowers, most of them remain with me. I subscribed to Reader's Digest from 1980-1989 and 91-95 and I kept all of them including few condensed books.

I lost appetite to buy physical books due to prices gone up since 2000 and also my reading physical books gone down due to job pressures. I shifted reading on Internet and collected lots of freely downloadable PDFs, DOCs and TXT files.

Last year my sons introduced me and my wife to Kindle and bought us a PW during our visit to US last year. Since then I started collecting old classic public domain free mobi books.

After getting latched on to Calibre, I realized the epub advantages, and got a second hand (almost new) Nook simple touch for $30 through Craigslist. Since then I changed over to Nook. I use Kindle only on night in bed due to it's internal light. I do not wish to buy a Nook Simple Touch Glo until the internal light's problem is permanently solved by Barnes and Noble.

Due to my collection habit (I don't know whether it is hoarding or not), I now have few thousands of free epubs on my Nook's microSD card. I planned to read them during my free time.

I liked the Calibre software for eBooks and I appreciate Kovid and his developers for their continued great work.

I was also looking for similar individual management softwares on open source domain for my large collections of music, digital photos and some movies but found no good ones. I appreciate if someone develops them on open source domain. I do not mean to integrate these features in to Calibre as suggested in one of the old posts, but separate programs with similar features, look and feel of Calibre by other than Kovid and his developers.

This will make lots of music, photo and movie lovers happy.

04-12-2014, 01:56 PM	#109
rraod Bibliophile Posts: 59 Karma: 2017058 Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Somewhere in the middle of the desert. Device: Kobo Aura H2O	By nature since my childhood, I was an avid collector. This collection habit has evolved with my age. In childhood I used to collect, matchbox covers and postage stamps. Then I moved on to photography at the age of 15. I still have the B&W 6x6 negatives taken during those days. I collected family and friends photos both B&W and color (35mm) and now digital photos. I have a project to convert all my old photo collection to digital by scanning, and I bought a flatbed scanner for that purpose. Sometimes I scan these photos and due to hundreds of them, I get tired soon and pause the project. But I aimed to complete this project. I have passed on these scanned photo collections to my relatives and friends making them happy. I was a voracious reader and used to read various books mostly classics and thrillers since I was below 10 years. During 70's the novels and hobby magazines (How and Why series, old Popular Science issues, Chip and other computer magazines) were cheap in India and I used to buy lots of them till year 2000. Though I lost many favorite books by friendly borrowers, most of them remain with me. I subscribed to Reader's Digest from 1980-1989 and 91-95 and I kept all of them including few condensed books. I lost appetite to buy physical books due to prices gone up since 2000 and also my reading physical books gone down due to job pressures. I shifted reading on Internet and collected lots of freely downloadable PDFs, DOCs and TXT files. Last year my sons introduced me and my wife to Kindle and bought us a PW during our visit to US last year. Since then I started collecting old classic public domain free mobi books. After getting latched on to Calibre, I realized the epub advantages, and got a second hand (almost new) Nook simple touch for $30 through Craigslist. Since then I changed over to Nook. I use Kindle only on night in bed due to it's internal light. I do not wish to buy a Nook Simple Touch Glo until the internal light's problem is permanently solved by Barnes and Noble. Due to my collection habit (I don't know whether it is hoarding or not), I now have few thousands of free epubs on my Nook's microSD card. I planned to read them during my free time. I liked the Calibre software for eBooks and I appreciate Kovid and his developers for their continued great work. I was also looking for similar individual management softwares on open source domain for my large collections of music, digital photos and some movies but found no good ones. I appreciate if someone develops them on open source domain. I do not mean to integrate these features in to Calibre as suggested in one of the old posts, but separate programs with similar features, look and feel of Calibre by other than Kovid and his developers. This will make lots of music, photo and movie lovers happy.