Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
In my own case it's very much because I've been buying books for an awful lot of years, and from all sorts of different sources, many of which no longer exist (eg FictionWise, BooksOnBoard). Maintaining my ebook library in a single place (Calibre), and sideloading all my content means that I have a single central point where all my books are stored, and no worries about trying to remember where I bought each book from, or what devices I can load it onto. I can read all my books on all my devices.
|
I did so as well until maybe 3 years ago.
For whatever reason I stopped downloading to the PC. Probably because I mostly purchase on my readers, often enough when on the road.
And when coming home from my business trip, I usually go straight to my business tasks and forget about the private stuff.
If I would start using calibre again, I would have to download about 1.500 eBooks from about 5 different sources.
Instead of doing so, I bought the respective readers from my most important sources of the last few years: Nook Glowlight, Kobo Aura H2O and Kindle Voyage. This doesn't solve my "problem" about my 500 .lit files from my Pocket PCs for example, but 90% of my purchases of the last 3 or so years.
I guess, at some point in the next few months, I'll go for the compromise solution: I'll download the desktop reader software from Amazon and Kobo, make a batch download of my entire library and strip all from DRM. I won't convert them, I won't touch them. But I'll archive them DRM free.