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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Compared to HarryT with his 6.000+ books, I'm a tiny fish in a huge pond with my roughly 3.000 legally obtained books (all purchased, no freebies).
But in my group, this by far ist he biggest number of bought books. Most of the others have a few hundred at best.
But then there's the group of "pirates". They all are in the tens of thousands.
Confirmed, same for Nintendo games, MP3s and whatever.
Why stop at your actual demand?
If you download pirated content, why not download almost everything you may find?
The friend I've mentioned before stated:
"It takes way too much time, to actually filter through the content.
I don't look for some author or anything specific.
Sometimes I just download all the German ePUBs that have been uploaded to my usual source that day: Another 500 or so, downloaded in less than 3 minutes.
Actually checking them would take way longer.
I just archive them on my SD card - and there's plenty of books to store on 32GB or even 64GB"....
And then again - such vast numbers easiest can be sidelaoded.
Would anyone download hundreds of MB of unmanaged data directly on their reader?
Going through your PC and some kind of content management seems more likely...
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I guess I'm not understanding what you're trying to find out with your poll?
Yes, it's easier to sideload than directly download when dealing with large quantities of books. When my new Voyage comes next week, I am going to sideload my previous kindle's library over to it, rather than individually loading books.
But in terms of your friend, and this is a bit off topic, but it's what struck me about the 20,000 remark. There has to be sorting and choosing done at SOME stage, unless there's absolutely no interest in actually reading, only possessing.