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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Yes, but IMHO, mgmueller is overdoing it. If his time it as important as he makes it out to be, even being on this forum will cost millions.
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BTW: I never said, my time is important.
It is not, I've got more than enough spare time and limit my working time to the bare minimum = my time is NOT important.
But still I consider, what to spend my time for. It either should be fun or relaxing or productive. In the perfect world all of those three at once.
Moving my books around, converting them and such is no fun for me (anymore). I used to care about inconsistencies, like for example author's names (James Patterson vs. Patterson, James vs. JAMES PATTERSON and so on) or book titles. But I don't anymore, I rather jump right into reading instead of bothering.
And I never found it difficult, to find my books in my library. Either I have an idea what I'd like to read and find it quickly enough via title or author or I have no specific idea what to read and scroll through my library. The latter being one of the things I love about eBooks: I can scroll through a library of hundreds and thousands of books, wherever I am.
I wouldn't hate to use calibre, but it simply doesn't have enough benefit for me anymore.
So the "fun" aspect, for me, doesn't apply.
And if you check out my brief calculation in the post above, it wouldn't be productive either.
Some state the "backup" aspect.
So far, 3 or 4 of my merchants ceased business. They warned me months ahead and in most cases some other merchant did jump in anyway. Kobo for Sony and WHSmith and some similar case I don't quite remember.
There was a single case, where I would have lost some 500 books: Microsoft dropping the .lit format.
I think I even would be able to still install the reader and still use the books. But in that case I did have backups and DRM-free copies. But I've never used them. I've still got them, but probably won't need them ever...