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Originally Posted by jocampo
I can't understand why people want several Gigs of ebooks (which may translaters to hundreds, maybe thousands of books) in the same device and at the same time.
There is no human being that can read all of them in just a few weeks or days.
It would be different if we were talking about a PC or Mac with Calibre, but hey, this is a portable ereader.
I mainly read MS-SQL and IT books which are bigger in size (talking about ebooks, not PDFs) than most ebooks that people may read or buy here. And I have tons of MS-SQL books on my PW2 and I can add much more.
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Of course we can't read all of them in just weeks or days or months or even years. What has that to do with it? I like my stores to carry a variety of stuff I can't buy/use/eat all of in weeks or days. I like my library to carry more books than I can read in weeks or days or even years.
I've never read a MS-SQL book cover to cover and although I possess a few in both paper and pdf I would not read any of them on and ereader. I certainly would not have 6 or 10 etc. on an ereader, but would vigorously defend your right to do so if that is what you want to do.
I have eclectic tastes, and like the luxury of being able to pick from a variety at any hour of the day or night without having to be connected to my computer or the (mostly mythical) cloud where I live in the summer. Even if I had internet access and power full time I would still want a good variety of books on my reader. I don't see it as more greedy than going to a store and being able to buy more than one item or keeping more I can eat in a day or week in my freezer. Heck I can only sit in one place at a time and I have two sofas, 12 chairs and a recliner. Rarely need them all but occasionally I run out of seating for guests.
Nothing against minimalism, but it doesn't work for everyone on all occasions. I can't understand the reason for the thinly veiled condemnation I frequently see disguised as incredulity although I am sure that was not your intent.
Helen